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Date:      Mon, 22 May 2006 17:33:04 +1000
From:      Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
To:        Bachilo Dmitry <root@solink.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD is now self-hosting on the UltraSPARC T1
Message-ID:  <20060522073304.GA730@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <200605221031.23050.root@solink.ru>
References:  <1e4841eb0605211854i44c4aa4cm9dfc72506c2232ea@mail.gmail.com> <200605221031.23050.root@solink.ru>

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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.

-- 
Peter Jeremy



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