Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964924Ab2JCPvQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Oct 2012 11:51:16 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:39705 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932427Ab2JCPvN (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Oct 2012 11:51:13 -0400 Message-ID: <506C5EDB.9000107@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 08:50:51 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120911 Thunderbird/15.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Blueman CC: Ingo Molnar , Steffen Persvold , Thomas Gleixner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Borislav Petkov , x86@kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] RFC: Fix AMD Northbridge-ID contiguity assumptions References: <1349256029-14851-1-git-send-email-daniel@numascale-asia.com> <506C56B2.50505@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1196 Lines: 32 On 10/03/2012 08:30 AM, Daniel Blueman wrote: > > > > Is that "on NumaScale systems"? If so, please say so rather than trying > > to make it sound generic; if it is not, can you give some other examples? > > It is for Numascale (NumaChip) systems for our purposes. > > Any other systems which interconnect Opterons via address space routing > (needed for >8 HT nodes) will get this benefit. I can't put my hand to > exactly what is out there, but can find out. > The reason I'm asking is because it is an important bit of the record of the code to know if this is a specific need or a general need. This may be obvious now, but 5-10 years from now someone will need to know why or what. The two paragraphs above is exactly what is needed, i.e. "NumaChip or any other design which shares these specific design features: ..." -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- 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/