From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: "Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Cc: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Are we properly prepared to handle 3 Socket setups?
Date: 12 Aug 2007 13:46:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73absxj7qh.fsf@bingen.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9a8748490708111808o11d354fr9efa719bc38046c5@mail.gmail.com>
"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
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-12 10:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-12 1:08 Are we properly prepared to handle 3 Socket setups? Jesper Juhl
2007-08-12 1:27 ` Rene Herman
2007-08-12 1:52 ` Jesper Juhl
2007-08-12 3:17 ` Rene Herman
2007-08-12 3:29 ` Roland Dreier
2007-08-12 3:36 ` Rene Herman
2007-08-12 8:35 ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-12 20:00 ` Rene Herman
2007-08-13 20:44 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-12 7:24 ` Paul Mundt
2007-08-12 8:41 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-08-12 11:46 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
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