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Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:14:51 -0700
From: "Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
To: "Andi Kleen" <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC git pull] "big box" x86 changes
Cc: "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>,
       "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
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On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> writes:
>  >
>  > Most of the work has been done by Yinghai Lu who has gone through a
>  > heroic effort to fix all the big-box bugs that he encountered on the
>  > vanilla Linux kernel on his various up to 256 GB RAM test-systems. Also
>  > work is included from Ying Huang for those insane SGI UV boxes.
>
>  Just to make things clear for the list readers, x86-64 worked fine for years
>  on 256GB systems.

Are you sure? I don't know who had 256g ram with x86-64 that earlier.
Horus from newisys?

that mean 8 sockets * 8 dimms * 4G.

YH