Re: SMP/cc Cluster description [was Linux/Pro]

From: Martin J. Bligh (Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com)
Date: Wed Dec 05 2001 - 19:24:13 EST


> I've seen people trying to do spinlocks across a numa system. Why? Don't Do

Because they work well enough for low-contention locks. We have numa
aware locks too. Or just make the resource node-local.

M.

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