Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 12 Aug 2007 03:27:58 +0200 | From | Rene Herman <> | Subject | Re: Are we properly prepared to handle 3 Socket setups? |
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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... :-|
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