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From: Jeff Golds <jgolds@resilience.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] AMD SMP capability sanity checking.
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 16:33:35 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BF5B05F.9F727DD8@resilience.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0111162353140.32578-100000@Appserv.suse.de>

Dave Jones wrote:
> 
> Burning out a fuse to make the switch from MP->XP may affect more
> than just the cpuid capabilities. The fact is _we don't know_
> 

Right, so why assume it doesn't work?

> I've yet to see a socket 370 dual processormotherboard that
> I'd put faith in for a mission critical environment.
> "I had no problems" means _nothing_ when theres as few as 1 other
> user reporting SMP related problems with the same setup.
> 

People with "true" SMP CPUs can have problems as well.  Does this mean
SMP CPUs are not SMP capable?  If only one person is having problems,
chances are there's a problem someplace.  Could it be a faulty
motherboard?  Mismatched CPUs?  Bad memory?  Bad CPU?  Bad power
supply?  There's an awful lot of variables here.

-Jeff

-- 
Jeff Golds
Sr. Software Engineer
jgolds@resilience.com

  reply	other threads:[~2001-11-17  0:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-16 21:30 [PATCH] AMD SMP capability sanity checking Dave Jones
2001-11-16 19:42 ` Gérard Roudier
2001-11-16 21:41 ` Randy.Dunlap
2001-11-16 21:46   ` Dave Jones
2001-11-16 21:44 ` Dan Hollis
2001-11-16 22:02   ` Dave Jones
2001-11-16 21:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-11-16 21:59 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2001-11-16 22:11   ` Dave Jones
2001-11-16 22:37     ` Jeff Golds
2001-11-16 23:04       ` Dave Jones
2001-11-17  0:33         ` Jeff Golds [this message]
2001-11-17  0:39           ` Dave Jones
2001-11-17  0:59             ` Andreas Boman
2001-11-17  1:54             ` Mike Fedyk
2001-11-17  4:11         ` Nathan Walp
2001-11-17  4:59           ` Mark Orr
2001-11-16 23:40     ` Stefan Smietanowski
2001-11-16 23:47       ` Dave Jones
2001-11-17  1:05         ` Stefan Smietanowski
2001-11-17  1:09           ` Dan Hollis
2001-11-17  1:11             ` Dave Jones
2001-11-17  1:10           ` Dave Jones
2001-11-21  0:42 ` Pavel Machek

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