11 Mar
2004
11 Mar
'04
2:21 a.m.
ron minnich rminnich@lanl.gov writes:
As it happens the real important thing (which we hope to get to) is SRAT tables, so that Linux with NUMA support will work on K8.
Yep, it really matters, as somebody from IBM explained to me recently.
On K8 with a 64bit NUMA kernel it should not matter, because the kernel can look and see where everything is.
In the general case or with a 32bit kernel is makes sense. I believe the SRAT table is not an AML table so it really should not be hard to accommodate.
Eric