From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: William Lee Irwin III Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 18:08:04 +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, 2003-09-24 at 23:57, 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. On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 02:04:07AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: > Well, besides the NUMA-Q, which went up to 60x and is dead now, there > are at least the IBM Summit chipset machines. They're sold as 32-ways > today on the x445 (that's physical, without hyperthreading). I've > personally booted Linux on a 16-way, but I'm know others have booted on > the 32-way configuration. Patches for this were posted in the last week > by James Cleverdon. > There's also the bigsmp code in the kernel for other P4-based systems > that are >8x. I haven't seen any of them yet, but I wouldn't imagine > that people would put support in the kernel for hardware that wasn't at > least *close* to production. I figured the ES7000 and x440/x445 were recent enough they'd be fresh in people's mind. Small correction to the NUMA-Q: it was 64x. http://www-3.ibm.com/software/data/db2/benchmarks/050300.html -- wli