Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272168AbTHDUJh (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2003 16:09:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272222AbTHDUJh (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2003 16:09:37 -0400 Received: from almesberger.net ([63.105.73.239]:34309 "EHLO host.almesberger.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272168AbTHDUJd (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2003 16:09:33 -0400 Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 17:09:21 -0300 From: Werner Almesberger To: David Lang Cc: "Ihar 'Philips' Filipau" , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: TOE brain dump Message-ID: <20030804170921.O5798@almesberger.net> References: <20030804165649.N5798@almesberger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from david.lang@digitalinsight.com on Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 01:01:02PM -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1282 Lines: 32 David Lang wrote: > I would think that it's much more difficult to run NUMA across different > types of CPU's I'd view this as a new and interesting challenge :-) Besides, if one would use Alan's idea, and just use an amd64, or such, the CPUs wouldn't be all that different in the end. One added benefit of using similar CPUs would be that also bits of user space (e.g. a copy loop) could migrate to the NIC. > then it would be to run a seperate kernel on the NIC. Yes, but that separate kernel would need new administrative interfaces, and things like route changes would be difficult to handle. (That is, if you still want this to appear as a single system to user space.) It would certainly be better that running a completely proprietary solution, but you still get a few nasty problems. - Werner -- _________________________________________________________________________ / Werner Almesberger, Buenos Aires, Argentina werner@almesberger.net / /_http://www.almesberger.net/____________________________________________/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/