Re: FreeBSD is now self-hosting on the UltraSPARC T1

From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy_at_optushome.com.au>
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 17:33:04 +1000
On Mon, 2006-May-22 10:31:22 +0700, Bachilo Dmitry wrote:
>? ????????? ?? ??????????? 22 ??? 2006 08:54 m m ???????(a):
>> Some phylosophical questions - is this machine really an SMP?  Can we
...
>Well, this is 8-core processor, so it is pretty an SMP system, made to have 
>cheeper multiprocessing then what we call "real" multiprocessor system does. 

I don't think m m is referring to the cores but the NUMA:  The CPUs
aren't all equivalent so it's not 'symmetric'.  OTOH, it's not the
same as (eg) the IBM S/370 CPU+AP systems where the AP couldn't handle
interrupts.

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Peter Jeremy
Received on Mon May 22 2006 - 05:33:17 UTC

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