On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Linda Walsh wrote:
> Some followup -- it was setting/testing 1 integer. So it
> seems it can safely be done w/o lock.
Cool.
> Talking with an internal engineer here -- NUMA uses MESI
> cache control similarly to the i386 cache coherency model,
> so a write of one CPU to a an area of memory will be seen
> on other processors as soon as they ask for that memory.
That's specific to MIPS. A general Linux NUMA model probably won't assume
coherence.
-- "Love the dolphins," she advised him. "Write by W.A.S.T.E.."- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Mon Jul 31 2000 - 21:00:25 EST