On 3/13/07, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> wrote:
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> On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 02:05:23PM +1100, Con Kolivas wrote:
> > On Tuesday 13 March 2007 10:46, David Miller wrote:
> > > From: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
> > > Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:58:11 +1100
> > >
> > > > http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/staircase-deadline/2.6.21-rc3-sched-rsdl-0.
> > > >30.patch
> > >
> > > FWIW, this boots and seems to work well on sparc64.  Tested
> > > on UP SunBlade1500 and 24cpu Niagara T1000.
> >
> > Very nice. Thanks for the feedback and I'm sorry you have to work with such
> > lousy hardware.
>
> BTW, I don't know if you say this as a joke, but those are not necessarily
> lousy hardware. Sun does lousy hardware when they put Sparcs in PCs (ultra5,
> ultra10, blade100). But their servers generally are nice with large memory
> busses and very scalable SMP architectures.

I guess Con was kidding. A 24-CPU system can be anything but lousy hardware.
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