linux-kernel - Re: [RFC git pull] "big box" x86 changes

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Date:	Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:14:51 -0700
From:	"Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
To:	"Andi Kleen" <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org
Subject: Re: [RFC git pull] "big box" x86 changes

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> wrote:
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> writes:
>  >
>  > Most of the work has been done by Yinghai Lu who has gone through a
>  > heroic effort to fix all the big-box bugs that he encountered on the
>  > vanilla Linux kernel on his various up to 256 GB RAM test-systems. Also
>  > work is included from Ying Huang for those insane SGI UV boxes.
>
>  Just to make things clear for the list readers, x86-64 worked fine for years
>  on 256GB systems.

Are you sure? I don't know who had 256g ram with x86-64 that earlier.
Horus from newisys?

that mean 8 sockets * 8 dimms * 4G.

YH
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