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

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Message-ID: <46BE621E.9090509@gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 12 Aug 2007 03:27:58 +0200
From:	Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.com>
To:	Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
CC:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Are we properly prepared to handle 3 Socket setups?

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.
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