Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 16:53:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Kip Macy <kmacy@fsmware.com> To: David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAXCPU alterable in kernel config - needs testers Message-ID: <20061008165226.U46444@demos.bsdclusters.com> In-Reply-To: <200610090739.45433.davidxu@freebsd.org> References: <2fd864e0610080423q7ba6bdeal656a223e662a5d@mail.gmail.com> <4529667D.8070108@fer.hr> <20061008155350.L29803@demos.bsdclusters.com> <200610090739.45433.davidxu@freebsd.org>
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> Current MD code does not provide useful CPU topology data structure, > it is impossible to write a locality aware scheduler for sun4v and other > NUMA architectures. This is incorrect with respect to sun4v. The MD code obtains a "machine description" from the hypervisor. You are correct in that there is no interface to MI code. -Kip
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