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Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 03:52:48 +0200 From: "Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@...il.com> To: "Rene Herman" <rene.herman@...il.com> Cc: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: Are we properly prepared to handle 3 Socket setups? On 12/08/07, Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.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 ;-) ... -- Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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