From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: William Lee Irwin III Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 07:08:39 +0000 Subject: Re: [Lse-tech] CPUSET Proposal Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 23:02:34 -0700, William Lee Irwin III said: Bill> Custom interrupt controllers may exceed these limits, but I don't know Bill> of any that have actually been made use of to do so. Though it sucks Bill> and very, very badly, x86 is not limited to anything like 8x. On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 11:57:10PM -0700, David Mosberger wrote: > I wasn't suggesting that x86 is limited to 8-way, I was wondering how > many > 8-way x86 Linux machines are actually out there. I wasn't even > being facetious---just curious. I am not able to get any kind of useful numerical estimate of how mahy machines of that kind are manufactured or sold. I suspect the numbers are meaningful to and kept secret by someone, e.g. marketing ppl. Not to say that I've tried very hard. -- wli