From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750857AbWFEJZb (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jun 2006 05:25:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750860AbWFEJZa (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jun 2006 05:25:30 -0400 Received: from smtp111.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([68.142.198.210]:30803 "HELO smtp111.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750853AbWFEJZa (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jun 2006 05:25:30 -0400 Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 02:25:28 -0700 From: Chris Wedgwood To: Marty Leisner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: mixing cache size on xeon4's in smp system Message-ID: <20060605092528.GA26189@tuatara.stupidest.org> References: <200606042317.k54NHfIS026034@dell2.home> <20060604173825.A28581@openss7.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060604173825.A28581@openss7.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 05:38:25PM -0600, Brian F. G. Bidulock wrote: > For most motherboards the answer is no, regardless of whether you > are running Linux or not. Actually, I've had a system when the hardware was failing and one CPU lost it's bottle and thought it had less cache (and maybe was a different speed, forget). Anyhow, Linux did work with the exception of timekeeping was screwy (hence I think the speed of one CPU was wrong and I had to reboot with notsc or something until I got the CPU replaced).