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Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 19:00:58 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH: NEW ARCHITECTURE FOR 2.5.3] support for NCR voyager
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Hi!

> This is essentially the same as the 2.5.2 patch except that it adds support 
> for the new migration cross processor interrupt.
> 
> As far as the new scheduler goes, the process affinity properties are much 
> better for the voyager, which is configured to have a fairly huge L3 cache 
> shared by several CPUs.  (My current voyager has 2 CPU cards with 4 pentium 
> CPUs each and 32Mb of L3 cache on each card).

Maybe you should stop calling it new architecture? Its mostly
i386-compatible, right?

BTW are those "current" machines, or is their production already
stopped?
									Pavel

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