From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764222AbXHLBmY (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Aug 2007 21:42:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756456AbXHLBmK (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Aug 2007 21:42:10 -0400 Received: from smtpq1.tilbu1.nb.home.nl ([213.51.146.200]:48716 "EHLO smtpq1.tilbu1.nb.home.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756249AbXHLBmI (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Aug 2007 21:42:08 -0400 Message-ID: <46BE621E.9090509@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 03:27:58 +0200 From: Rene Herman User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jesper Juhl CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Are we properly prepared to handle 3 Socket setups? References: <9a8748490708111808o11d354fr9efa719bc38046c5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9a8748490708111808o11d354fr9efa719bc38046c5@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 08/12/2007 03:08 AM, Jesper Juhl wrote: > This may be a little off topic, but I think it's interresting enough > to warrent a single mail. > > I just saw a news article (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=41610) > about a 3 Socket Opteron motherboard and couldn't help but wonder if > we are prepared to deal with such a beast, so I thought I'd inform > everyone :-) > > I'm guessing equipping such a board with 3 single core CPU's could > show up some interresting corner cases in schedular code and > elsewhere, I'll bet we have some assumptions somewhere about > nr_of_cpus being an even number... I would hope the N=1 case will have flushed out enough of those... :-| Rene.