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Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Subject: Re: SMP on 4.11++ with > 4 cpus
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On Thursday 20 April 2006 07:45 pm, Julian Elischer wrote:
> Does this work?
>
> We have a Dual CPU dualcore with HTT that enumerates to 8 cpus.
> It hangs badly under heavy networking load under 4.x.

Hang as in deadlock or hang as in livelock?  (Does ping still work
for example)=20

> Does anyone have an 8-way 4.x machine that works?
>
> We do have  a small patch installed that helps it enumerate the CPUS.
> (so that we see all the cpus).

What did you have to patch?  It's supposed to enumerate all the HTT
cpus out of the box.  (And multicore should look like HTT, but
possibly with 4 HTTs).

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