From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Frederik Deweerdt <frederik.deweerdt@xprog.eu>,
andi@firstfloor.org, tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@zytor.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, shai@scalex86.org
Subject: Re: [patch] tlb flush_data: replace per_cpu with an array
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:31:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090114073146.GA14767@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090113184202.GB8075@localdomain>
* Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 07:34:20PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> >* Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 01:33:17PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >VSMP is a clustering solution (default-disabled)
> >>
> >> Small correction :)
> >> Well, it is a virtualization solution creating single VM across multiple
> >> systems. Since it is shared memory, we would rather refer to it as SMP or
> >> Virtual SMP rather than a clustering solution.
> >
> > You do have hardware help too to do efficient cross-node memory
> > traffic, dont you?
>
> Of course. A fast backplane interconnect.
... so it's PCs clustered together, and called vSMP, right? ;-)
a neat hack in any case.
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-14 7:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-12 21:35 [patch] tlb flush_data: replace per_cpu with an array Frederik Deweerdt
2009-01-12 21:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-12 21:57 ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-12 22:10 ` Frederik Deweerdt
2009-01-12 22:32 ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-12 22:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-12 22:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-12 22:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-13 2:43 ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-13 12:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-12 22:34 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2009-01-12 23:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-12 23:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-13 2:14 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2009-01-13 12:00 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-01-13 12:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-13 18:13 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2009-01-13 18:34 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-13 18:42 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2009-01-14 7:31 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-01-15 7:15 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2009-01-14 9:08 ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-14 14:41 ` Frederik Deweerdt
2009-01-14 15:20 ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-14 15:10 ` Frederik Deweerdt
2009-01-12 22:54 ` Mike Travis
2009-01-12 23:51 ` Frederik Deweerdt
2009-01-12 23:57 ` Mike Travis
2009-01-13 0:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-13 3:36 ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-13 12:14 ` Ingo Molnar
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