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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: "Kevin D. Kissell" <kevink@mips.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] synchronized CPU count registers on SMP machines
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On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 10:55:10AM +0200, Kevin D. Kissell wrote:

> I personally think it would be foolish to assume that future MIPS 
> MP systems will not be subject to one or more such constraint.

I'm expecting something like hypertransport-based ccNUMAs to bring up
that problem again.

  Ralf