Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264634AbTIDDoh (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 23:44:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264638AbTIDDoh (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 23:44:37 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:53132 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264634AbTIDDof (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 23:44:35 -0400 Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 20:45:13 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: David Lang Cc: "Martin J. Bligh" , Larry McVoy , "Brown, Len" , Giuliano Pochini , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Scaling noise Message-ID: <20030904034513.GD1715@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , David Lang , "Martin J. Bligh" , Larry McVoy , "Brown, Len" , Giuliano Pochini , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <9110000.1062643682@[10.10.2.4]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 792 Lines: 18 On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 08:16:16PM -0700, David Lang wrote: > some of these problems can be addressed in hardware (the Opteron could be > called SSI-NUMA that has it's partitioning layer running in hardware > for up to 8 CPU's) but addressing it in hardware runs into scaling > problems becouse you don't want to pay to much at the low end for the > features you need on the high end (which is why the opteron doesn't > directly scale to 128+ CPU's in one image) Most of those features are just methods of connecting hardware components. -- wli - 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/