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Re: DualCore Dual-Opteron Board - suggestion?



On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 01:04:43PM -0800, mike wrote:
> > I believe there is an issue with kernels < 2.6.14-2 with Opteron SMP.
> > That is why I'm running 2.6.14-2 myself.
> >
> > The issue was an AMD errata rather than a bug with the kernel -
> > 2.6.14-2 contained a workaround.
> 
> I think that's all that NUMA stuff right? It wasnt optimized properly
> or something...

Probably the assumption that TSCs were synced between cores in a dual
core, which they apparently are not.

Len Sorensen



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