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Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 09:16:58 -0800
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: "Van Maren, Kevin" <kevin.vanmaren@unisys.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH][2.4]  generic cluster APIC support for systems with m ore than 8 CPUs
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On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 09:46:19AM -0600, Van Maren, Kevin wrote:
> I mostly work on our 16-32p IA64 machines.  Natalie or someone else will
> have to comment on the clustered-apic code.

Okay, that's not too big a deal. I didn't expect you'd field it directly.


On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 09:46:19AM -0600, Van Maren, Kevin wrote:
> Also, as a clarification, our 32-processor systems are NOT NUMA: there
> is a full non-blocking crossbar to memory.  So clustered APIC support
> should not be dependant on NUMA.

That one's easy to fix (and apparently for you to spot despite not
actually working on the things).


Thanks,
Bill
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