riscv: Raise default NR_CPUS for 64BIT to 256

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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 <lufei.zheng@spacemit.com>
Link: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1140651 # [1]
Suggested-by: Han Gao <gaohan@iscas.ac.cn>
Signed-off-by: Vivian Wang <wangruikang@iscas.ac.cn>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260625-riscv-more-nr-cpus-v1-1-5da8c72b9269@iscas.ac.cn
Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>

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Vivian Wang 2026-06-25 14:34:15 +08:00 • committed by Paul Walmsley

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