> It's a bit regrettable to have different architectures behaving in > different ways. It would be interesting to toss an x86_64 > implementation into the grinder, see if it causes any problems, see if > it produces any tangible benefits. Then other architectures might > follow. Or not, depending on the results ;) I personally expect SGI to work on this for x86_64 in the future. Once we actually start testing systems with 128 and above cpus, I would expect to see these performance issues needing to be addressed. Until then, it is just a theoretical. Thank you for your help, Robin Holt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html