From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>
To: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Are we properly prepared to handle 3 Socket setups?
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 03:27:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46BE621E.9090509@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9a8748490708111808o11d354fr9efa719bc38046c5@mail.gmail.com>
On 08/12/2007 03:08 AM, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> This may be a little off topic, but I think it's interresting enough
> to warrent a single mail.
>
> I just saw a news article (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=41610)
> about a 3 Socket Opteron motherboard and couldn't help but wonder if
> we are prepared to deal with such a beast, so I thought I'd inform
> everyone :-)
>
> I'm guessing equipping such a board with 3 single core CPU's could
> show up some interresting corner cases in schedular code and
> elsewhere, I'll bet we have some assumptions somewhere about
> nr_of_cpus being an even number...
I would hope the N=1 case will have flushed out enough of those... :-|
Rene.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-12 1:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-12 1:08 Are we properly prepared to handle 3 Socket setups? Jesper Juhl
2007-08-12 1:27 ` Rene Herman [this message]
2007-08-12 1:52 ` Jesper Juhl
2007-08-12 3:17 ` Rene Herman
2007-08-12 3:29 ` Roland Dreier
2007-08-12 3:36 ` Rene Herman
2007-08-12 8:35 ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-12 20:00 ` Rene Herman
2007-08-13 20:44 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-12 7:24 ` Paul Mundt
2007-08-12 8:41 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-08-12 11:46 ` Andi Kleen
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