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Subject: Re: SMP/cc Cluster description
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   From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
   Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 17:27:08 -0500

   	- lower overhead for SMP systems.  We can use UP kernels local 
   	  to each CPU.  Should make kernel compiles faster. ;-)
   
Actually, this isn't what is being proposed.  Something like
"4 cpu" SMP kernels.

   At the very least it is well worth investigating.  Bootstrapping the 
   ccCluster work shouldn't take more than a week or so, which will let 
   us attach some hard numbers to the kind of impact it has on purely 
   cpu local tasks.
   
I think it is worth considering too, but I don't know if a week
estimate is sane or not :-)
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