Re: latest linus-2.5 BK broken

Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-06-18T19:55:25Z

On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:

> On HyperThreading, you want to specify that either cpu in a pair is
> okay. In larger SMP machines that share a cache between 4 CPUs, the
> mask is likely to contain all 4 CPUs in each quad.

Hmm so you want to apply the same 'node' principal to HT? The way HT works
i can see why that would be a good idea. Node affinity on the quads makes
sense and distinguishing which cpus belong to which quads would also help
for irq affinity.

Thanks,
Zwane Mwaikambo

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