From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: William Lee Irwin III Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 07:14:18 +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 23:57:10 -0700, David Mosberger 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