From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH: NEW ARCHITECTURE FOR 2.5.3] support for NCR voyager
Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 19:00:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020209180057.GB113@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200202081825.g18IPSf03107@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <200202081825.g18IPSf03107@localhost.localdomain>
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
--
(about SSSCA) "I don't say this lightly. However, I really think that the U.S.
no longer is classifiable as a democracy, but rather as a plutocracy." --hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-09 18:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-08 18:25 James Bottomley
2002-02-09 18:00 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2002-02-09 18:47 ` James Bottomley
2002-02-11 9:00 ` Andrey Panin
2002-02-11 12:05 ` Dave Jones
2002-02-11 13:41 ` Alan Cox
2002-02-11 15:08 ` James Bottomley
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