Re: [PATCH: NEW ARCHITECTURE FOR 2.5.3] support for NCR voyager

From: Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Date: Sat Feb 09 2002 - 13:00:58 EST


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

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