Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> writes: > The bad part is that the cores share a bus connection, the good part > is that it appears that some IPC can be done on chip. Why is that bad? Is that different from a dual CPU system? I thought in a dual CPU system, too, both CPUs share the bus and only one CPU can use the bus at a time (as long we're not talking about NUMA, of course). urs - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-smp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html