Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:34:20 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
       Frederik Deweerdt <frederik.deweerdt@xprog.eu>, andi@firstfloor.org,
       tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] tlb flush_data: replace per_cpu with an array
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* Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 01:33:17PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> >
> >VSMP is a clustering solution (default-disabled)
> 
> Small correction :)
> Well, it is a virtualization solution creating single VM across multiple
> systems.  Since it is shared memory, we would rather refer to it as SMP or
> Virtual SMP rather than a clustering solution.

You do have hardware help too to do efficient cross-node memory traffic, 
dont you?

	Ingo
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