Re: SMP Process to CPU locking

From: Ralf Baechle (ralf@uni-koblenz.de)
Date: Sat Mar 25 2000 - 10:39:03 EST


On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 02:45:11AM -0800, Will Deutsch wrote:

> > IMO this corresponds to hardware architecutre which is very uncommon on
> > i386, chrp ppc, alpha, s/390 and so on -- this might be important on sun
> > 3000, 6000, 10000 servers as well as on some hp pa risc machines...
>
>
> Sun systems don't have NUMA architechture. Just like ix86, ppc, alpha,
> and so on they use a unified memory system.

Not and so on. The SGI Origins are ccNUMA, not SMP when going beyond a
single node configuration.

  Ralf

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