> For example, if you have: > > 128 GB per SSI > 16 SSIs connected via NUMALINK > > a task running within an SSI can access all 2TB of memory (excluding memory > used by the kernel) And here to, access may not mean exactly what you expect. Some accesses are simple uncached accesses. Some are cached accesses for the owning SSI uncached accesses for the remote side (write coalesced). Some are DMA reads from the remote side to cachable local side. When Jack says access, he truly means it in a very broad sense. Thanks, Robin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Thu Nov 10 20:13:59 2005
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