> > Slightly off topic, but AMD has just announced its intention to ship a > > 4-core Opteron chip in 2007. The 4-core chip will use AMD's upcoming m2 > > socket. > > isn't writing a OS for dual (or n) core chips hell ?
It's no different to any other SMP system, and most serious OS have been doing that for years. You might want to use slightly different load balancing heuristics for big machines, but most big multiprocessor systems are already NUMA anyway so that's nothing new. Paul _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
