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Perf Support For 2,048 CPU Cores Is Becoming Not Enough - Patches Bump Kernel Limit


Currently the Linux kernel's 'perf' performance monitoring subsystem has a limit on 2,048 CPU cores for its CPU map that is set by the MAX_NR_CPUS value

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