From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Lse-tech] CPUSET Proposal
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 07:14:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-106447400909735@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-106442121824485@msgid-missing>
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 23:57:10 -0700, David Mosberger <davidm@linux.hpl.hp.com> said:
David> I wasn't suggesting that x86 is limited to 8-way, I was
David> wondering how many > 8-way x86 Linux machines are actually
David> out there. I wasn't even being facetious---just curious.
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 12:07:03AM -0700, David Mosberger wrote:
> Incidentally, the first "big" SMP machine I had access to was some
> sort of Sequent (S81/10?), with ~12 80386 CPUs (yes, that was a long
> time ago... ;-).
Aha, I've been on S-81's myself. Those definitely predated APIC's.
I think they used the SLIC or whatever the precursor to the CSLIC was
for an interrupt controller, and I'm sure there's a Sequent historian
around somewhere to correct me if my memory's (which wouldn't have been
of kernel hacking back then) failed me. =)
-- wli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-25 7:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-24 16:30 [Lse-tech] CPUSET Proposal Stephen Hemminger
2003-09-24 17:02 ` David Mosberger
2003-09-24 19:32 ` Gerrit Huizenga
2003-09-24 21:42 ` Paul Jackson
2003-09-25 5:40 ` Paul Jackson
2003-09-25 5:44 ` Paul Jackson
2003-09-25 6:02 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-25 6:57 ` David Mosberger
2003-09-25 7:07 ` David Mosberger
2003-09-25 7:08 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-25 7:14 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2003-09-25 9:04 ` Dave Hansen
2003-09-25 18:07 ` Shailabh Nagar
2003-09-25 18:08 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-25 20:50 ` Shailabh Nagar
2003-09-26 7:36 ` Simon Derr
2003-09-26 9:58 ` Paul Jackson
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