From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 22 07:33:17 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59AB716A422 for ; Mon, 22 May 2006 07:33:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peterjeremy@optushome.com.au) Received: from mail20.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail20.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.132.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED1A943D48 for ; Mon, 22 May 2006 07:33:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peterjeremy@optushome.com.au) Received: from turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (c220-239-19-236.belrs4.nsw.optusnet.com.au [220.239.19.236]) by mail20.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k4M7X5tt026398 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Mon, 22 May 2006 17:33:09 +1000 Received: from turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (localhost.vk2pj.dyndns.org [127.0.0.1]) by turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4M7X5DS000883; Mon, 22 May 2006 17:33:05 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from peter@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org) Received: (from peter@localhost) by turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k4M7X4PD000882; Mon, 22 May 2006 17:33:04 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from peter) Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 17:33:04 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy To: Bachilo Dmitry Message-ID: <20060522073304.GA730@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <1e4841eb0605211854i44c4aa4cm9dfc72506c2232ea@mail.gmail.com> <200605221031.23050.root@solink.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200605221031.23050.root@solink.ru> X-PGP-Key: http://members.optusnet.com.au/peterjeremy/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD is now self-hosting on the UltraSPARC T1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 07:33:17 -0000 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