From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <luke.leighton@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Will Newton <will.newton@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: advice sought: practicality of SMP cache coherency implemented in assembler (and a hardware detect line)
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:53:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110328235338.GS2287@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinySus3129nXyDoWXnoi43FsBuxVptZ4mpf5hVJ@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 12:39:30AM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 12:38 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
> <luke.leighton@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > p.s. alan am not ignoring what you wrote, it's just that if this goes
>
> alan? beh?? paul. sorry :)
;-)
FWIW, I believe that the http://www.scalemp.com/ folks do something
similar to what Alan suggests in order to glue multiple x86 systems into
one SMP system from the viewpoint of user applications.
Thanx, Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-28 23:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-25 21:52 advice sought: practicality of SMP cache coherency implemented in assembler (and a hardware detect line) Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2011-03-25 22:41 ` Will Newton
2011-03-26 12:08 ` Alan Cox
2011-03-28 18:06 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-03-28 18:48 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2011-03-28 22:12 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-03-28 22:18 ` Alan Cox
2011-03-28 23:38 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2011-03-28 23:39 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2011-03-28 23:53 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2011-03-29 9:16 ` Alan Cox
2011-04-07 12:09 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2011-04-08 16:24 ` Paul E. McKenney
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