Re: advice sought: practicality of SMP cache coherency implementedin assembler (and a hardware detect line)

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Mon Mar 28 2011 - 19:53:49 EST


On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 12:39:30AM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 12:38 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
> <luke.leighton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >  p.s. alan am not ignoring what you wrote, it's just that if this goes
>
> alan? beh?? paul. sorry :)

;-)

FWIW, I believe that the http://www.scalemp.com/ folks do something
similar to what Alan suggests in order to glue multiple x86 systems into
one SMP system from the viewpoint of user applications.

Thanx, Paul
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