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

Andi Kleen
2007-08-12T10:52:25Z

"Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> writes:

> 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 :-)

It should work. Non power of two cores per socket used to be problematic
though, but that has been also fixed.

> nr_of_cpus being an even number... In any case it would be an
> interresting box to test on, so for those of you employed by big
> business with the cash to purchase a test box, it would at least be an
> interresting one to add to the mix :)

You can already test it by either using qemu/xen/etc. or by
off lining one of your cores if you have more than 2.

-Andi