Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Are we properly prepared to handle 3 Socket setups? | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | 12 Aug 2007 13:46:30 +0200 |
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"Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> writes:
> I just saw a news article (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=41610) > about a 3 Socket Opteron motherboard and couldn't help but wonder if > we are prepared to deal with such a beast, so I thought I'd inform > everyone :-)
It should work. Non power of two cores per socket used to be problematic though, but that has been also fixed.
> nr_of_cpus being an even number... In any case it would be an > interresting box to test on, so for those of you employed by big > business with the cash to purchase a test box, it would at least be an > interresting one to add to the mix :)
You can already test it by either using qemu/xen/etc. or by off lining one of your cores if you have more than 2.
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