"Ostrovsky, Boris" wrote: > I would like to propose creation of a new project titled "Solaris > Enhancements for AMD-based Platforms". > > The project will address various features that are specific to platforms > based on AMD processors, such as > - IOMMU support > - NUMA topology, particularly how it affects IO performance > - Observability (performance counters, instruction-based > sampling) > - Power management > - RAS features > - New instruction support, new CPUID features > > Since what's described above covers fairly diverse range of subjects, > the proposed project will serve as an umbrella for sub-projects, each of > them covering a particular area related to improving Solaris behavior on > systems built around AMD processors (as well as chipsets and graphics > components) > > I think this project would be of interest to a number of OpenSolaris > communities but I am asking the performance community for sponsorship as > it appears to be the most relevant.
+1 from me... ... it may be nice to see the new AMD64 128bit floating-point stuff supported in Solaris... may be a usefull for HPC customers... :-) ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;) _______________________________________________ perf-discuss mailing list perf-discuss@opensolaris.org
