[PATCH] riscv: Raise default NR_CPUS for 64BIT to 256

Vivian Wang <[email protected]>
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.spacemit,org.infradead.lists.linux-riscv,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
SpacemiT has already produced a 80-core RVA23 RISC-V server [1], and
going further back, the dual-socket SG2042-based Sophgo Pisces has 128
cores (although that had some issues achieving mainline support).
Therefore, an NR_CPUS of 64 is not enough.

Raise default NR_CPUS to 256 for 64BIT (when !RISCV_SBI_V01, since very
old firmware can't support more than 64 cores). The number was picked as
a power of two that is at least double the known max. I believe this
should be the right balance between not wasting too much memory and not
having to touch this too often.

Ubuntu has already been shipping NR_CPUS=512 for riscv64. We have also
been testing NR_CPUS=256 internally at ISCAS and found negligible
performance impact and no ill effects.

Reported-by: Lufei Zheng <[email protected]>
Link: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1140651 # [1]
Suggested-by: Han Gao <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Vivian Wang <[email protected]>
---
 arch/riscv/Kconfig | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
index 3f0a647218e4..c0a6992933e4 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
@@ -454,7 +454,8 @@ config NR_CPUS
 	range 2 32 if RISCV_SBI_V01 && 32BIT
 	range 2 64 if RISCV_SBI_V01 && 64BIT
 	default "32" if 32BIT
-	default "64" if 64BIT
+	default "64" if RISCV_SBI_V01 && 64BIT
+	default "256" if !RISCV_SBI_V01 && 64BIT
 
 config HOTPLUG_CPU
 	bool "Support for hot-pluggable CPUs"

---
base-commit: ab9de95c9cf952332ab79453b4b5d1bfca8e514f
change-id: 20260625-riscv-more-nr-cpus-8158dbb4640c

Best regards,
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Vivian Wang <[email protected]>
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