Re: [Lse-tech] [PATCH][ANNOUNCE] 32way/8quad NUMAQ booting with 16 IOAPICs, 223 IRQs

From: William Lee Irwin III (wli@holomorphy.com)
Date: Mon Mar 17 2003 - 02:41:49 EST


On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> Well, I tried it in my prior attempt and didn't have problems in that
>> area. AFAICT it "just works" if you jack up the numbers.

On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 02:28:26AM -0500, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> Cool i'm trying to get hold of some more SCSI HBAs and disks to put on
> other nodes (plenty of FC but no drivers), i'll let you know how it goes.

On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> Also, NUMA-Q's max at 640 routeable RTE's with 16 quads so you'll only
>> need to add 1 to HARDIRQ_BITS.
>> The cpu count issue I've fixed in a separate patch.

On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 02:28:26AM -0500, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> I'd have to rob a couple more poor souls to get 16 quads ;)

Getting them together in one place involves extreme pain/hassles.

-- wli
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