Yes, you can have too many CPU cores - Ampere's 192-core chips break ARM64 Linux kernel in two-socket systems, company requests higher core count support
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Core counts for ARM-based server CPUs are overwhelming Linux operating systems.

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  • colourlesspony
    23·
    2 years ago

    These high power arm chips are really interesting. I feel like this is a good problem to have.

    • infeeeee@lemm.ee
      10·
      2 years ago

      From the article:

      Back in 2021, a patch was sent out proposing the ARM64 CPU core limit be increased to 512, but Linux maintainers denied it because no CPU hardware was available at the time with more than 256 cores.

    • wizzor@sopuli.xyz
      7·
      2 years ago

      They have submitted a patch, as stated in the 1st paragraph of the article.

    • Stefen AurisOPM
      1·
      2 years ago

      The question is how long will that many cores stay niche though?