Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764917AbXHLBw6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Aug 2007 21:52:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756962AbXHLBwu (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Aug 2007 21:52:50 -0400 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.231]:65099 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756998AbXHLBwt (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Aug 2007 21:52:49 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=rjad1Dl6P2Ye9xbB4kx+cZkh3Iwd+vrIal4ME+t6cfNbpzLBLGTC5Ka+tAJJIeKptB5j/DDQPS8x0LeHI7eb495HhxZm1BBRhWRdXGEtVkiipFT0samspwIW10WzKzV0Fc3wbSeuNKYs90Pig01mXGcUuoc28B9yK8LBbKyGWnA= Message-ID: <9a8748490708111852y569a3e18i1c3d192e60eceafe@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 03:52:48 +0200 From: "Jesper Juhl" To: "Rene Herman" Subject: Re: Are we properly prepared to handle 3 Socket setups? Cc: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" In-Reply-To: <46BE621E.9090509@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <9a8748490708111808o11d354fr9efa719bc38046c5@mail.gmail.com> <46BE621E.9090509@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1335 Lines: 30 On 12/08/07, Rene Herman 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 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@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/