Re: [PATCH] Binding processes to selected CPUs

Jakub Jelinek (jakub@redhat.com)
Wed, 13 Oct 1999 16:07:21 +0200

On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 01:06:00PM +0300, Matti Aarnio wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 11:28:07AM +0200, avik@talmai.com wrote:
> ... (Taxonomy of MP machines)
> >
> > All true, but I lack the facilities to measure the performance
> > of my patch on a NUMA :(
> >
> > Does linux support a NUMA machine?
>
> I don't think Linux support for SPARC EnterpriseServer 10000 is
> very good. It sure runs, but all these memory locality optimization
> things are missing. DaveM could tell more.
>
> Sun has a few more alike boxes (as I understand them), for example
> E 4500 series.

Huh? Neither Starfire (E10000), nor any Enterprise E[3-6][05]00 is NUMA, all
of them are UMAs. The thing you have memory on different boards does not
matter at all.
NUMA's are Sequents, SGIs, etc.

Cheers,
Jakub
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