Re: [PATCH] RFC: Fix AMD Northbridge-ID contiguity assumptions
From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed Oct 03 2012 - 12:21:24 EST
On 10/03/2012 08:30 AM, Daniel Blueman wrote:
>
> Is that "on NumaScale systems"? If so, please say so rather than trying
> to make it sound generic; if it is not, can you give some other examples?
It is for Numascale (NumaChip) systems for our purposes.
Any other systems which interconnect Opterons via address space routing
(needed for >8 HT nodes) will get this benefit. I can't put my hand to
exactly what is out there, but can find out.
The reason I'm asking is because it is an important bit of the record of
the code to know if this is a specific need or a general need. This may
be obvious now, but 5-10 years from now someone will need to know why or
what.
The two paragraphs above is exactly what is needed, i.e. "NumaChip or
any other design which shares these specific design features: ..."
-hpa
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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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