Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758679AbZANHcU (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:32:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754524AbZANHcL (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:32:11 -0500 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:49115 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752978AbZANHcK (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:32:10 -0500 Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:31:46 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Ravikiran G Thirumalai Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Frederik Deweerdt , andi@firstfloor.org, tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, shai@scalex86.org Subject: Re: [patch] tlb flush_data: replace per_cpu with an array Message-ID: <20090114073146.GA14767@elte.hu> References: <20090112213539.GA10720@gambetta> <20090112223421.GA20594@localdomain> <20090112230052.GB18771@elte.hu> <1231848016.442.112.camel@twins> <20090113123317.GA29926@elte.hu> <20090113181311.GA8075@localdomain> <20090113183420.GB10065@elte.hu> <20090113184202.GB8075@localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090113184202.GB8075@localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1045 Lines: 32 * Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 07:34:20PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > >* Ravikiran G Thirumalai 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? > > Of course. A fast backplane interconnect. ... so it's PCs clustered together, and called vSMP, right? ;-) a neat hack in any case. Ingo -- 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/