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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] Binding processes to selected CPUs
    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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    Linux version 2.3.18 on a sparc64 machine (1343.49 BogoMips)
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