Re: nr_cpu_ids vs AMD 3970x(32 physical CPUs)

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, Jul 03, 2020 at 05:57:49PM +0200, Uladzislau Rezki wrote:
> Hello, folk.
> 
> I have a system based on AMD 3970x CPUs. It has 32 physical cores
> and 64 threads. It seems that "nr_cpu_ids" variable is not correctly
> set on latest 5.8-rc3 kernel. Please have a look below on dmesg output:
> 
> <snip>
> urezki@pc638:~$ sudo dmesg | grep 128
> [    0.000000] IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 128, version 33, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
> [    0.000000] smpboot: Allowing 128 CPUs, 64 hotplug CPUs

This is your BIOS saying it needs 128 ids, 64 of which are 'empty'.

I have a box like that as well, if it bothers you boot with:
"possible_cpus=64" or something.