Re: [Lse-tech] Re: ext3 performance bottleneck as the number of spindles gets large

Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xmission.com)
23 Jun 2002 11:06:37 -0600


William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> writes:

> On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 12:00:01AM -0600, Christopher E. Brown wrote:
> > However, multiple busses are *rare* on x86. There are alot of chained
> > busses via PCI to PCI bridge, but few systems with 2 or more PCI
> > busses of any type with parallel access to the CPU.
>
> NUMA-Q has them.

As do the latest round of dual P4 Xeon chipsets. The Intel E7500 and
the Serverworks Grand Champion.

So on new systems this is easy to get if you want it.

Eric
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