From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 04:33:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 04:33:15 -0400 Received: from e1.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.101]:35262 "EHLO e1.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 04:33:14 -0400 Message-ID: <3D158767.6050709@us.ibm.com> Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 01:31:35 -0700 From: Dave Hansen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020607 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Christopher E. Brown" CC: William Lee Irwin III , Andreas Dilger , "Griffiths, Richard A" , "'Andrew Morton'" , mgross@unix-os.sc.intel.com, "'Jens Axboe'" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Lse-tech] Re: ext3 performance bottleneck as the number of spindles gets large References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Christopher E. Brown wrote: > Do you mean independent in that there are 2 sets of 4 slots each > detected as a seperate PCI bus, or independent in that each set of 4 > had *direct* access to the cpu side, and *does not* access via a > PCI:PCI bridge? No PCI:PCI bridges, at least for NUMA-Q. http://telia.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/lse/linux_on_numaq.pdf -- Dave Hansen haveblue@us.ibm.com