Re: Are we properly prepared to handle 3 Socket setups?

Jesper Juhl
2007-08-12T01:52:58Z

On 12/08/07, Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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... :-|
>
Hehe, true, but I was thinking more of nr_of_cpus is an odd number > 1. :-)
Just thinking of having to divide things by 3 makes me worry ;-) ...

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