To: Paul McKenney/Beaverton/IBM@IBMUS Cc: andi@suse.de, andrea@suse.de, aono@ed2.com1.fc.nec.co.jp, beckman@turbolabs.com, bjorn_helgaas@hp.com, Hubertus Franke/Watson/IBM@IBMUS, Jerry.Harrow@Compaq.com, jwright@engr.sgi.com, kanoj@engr.sgi.com, Kenneth Rozendal/Austin/IBM@IBMUS, kumon@flab.fujitsu.co.jp, mikek@sequent.com, norton@mclinux.com, suganuma@hpc.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp, sunil.saxena@intel.com, tbutler@hi.com, woodman@missioncriticallinux.com From: kanoj@google.engr.sgi.com Date: 04/01/01 11:06 PM Subject: Re: your mail (NUMA-on-Linux roadmap) > > Kanoj, is there a pointer to public info on hwgfs that would given people > rough idea of what you have in mind? (I will search www.sgi.com when I > get back to a higher bandwidth connection, but thought you might have a > good pointer off the top of your head.) > > Thanx, Paul > > I added some quick hwgfs manpages at http://oss.sgi.com/projects/numa/download/irix. Btw, I am not proposing exact hwgfs, because as you can see, it is very platform dependent ... unless we decide we absolutely need a platform dependent graph to extract 100% performance. IRIX hwgfs does not deal with exposing shared multilevel caches to the user. Kanoj PS - I will respond to the rest of the mail later.