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From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: Sandy Harris <pashley@storm.ca>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch[ Simple Topology API
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 12:33:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D32F959.A43EFA72@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D32E97A.AD808E43@storm.ca>

Sandy Harris wrote:

> I suspect latency may become an issue when more than one link is
> involved and there can be contention.

According to the AMD talk at OLS, worst case on a 4-way is better than current
best-case on a uniprocessor athlon.

> Beyond 8-way, you need glue logic (hypertransport switches?) and
> latency seems bound to become an issue.

Nope.  Just extend the ladder.  Each cpu talks to three other entities, either
cpu or I/O.  Can be extended arbitrarily until latencies are too high.

Chris



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  reply	other threads:[~2002-07-15 16:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <3D2F75D7.3060105@us.ibm.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found] ` <3D2F9521.96D7080B@zip.com.au.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-07-13 20:08   ` Andi Kleen
2002-07-14 19:17     ` Linus Torvalds
2002-07-14 19:43       ` Andi Kleen
2002-07-15  2:34         ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-07-15 15:25           ` Sandy Harris
2002-07-15 16:33             ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2002-07-16 10:30             ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-07-16 12:59               ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-16 15:45               ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-07-16 19:03       ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-07-16 22:29       ` Matthew Dobson
2002-07-17  0:21       ` Michael Hohnbaum
2002-07-15 17:48     ` Matthew Dobson
2002-07-15 19:50 Jukka Honkela
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-07-13  0:35 Matthew Dobson
2002-07-13  2:49 ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-15 18:49   ` Matthew Dobson
2002-07-13  8:04 ` Alexander Viro
2002-07-13 17:13   ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-07-15 23:52   ` Matthew Dobson

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