On Sat Jul 13, 2024 at 5:19 PM AEST, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> On 7/12/24 14:02, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> > POWER9 and POWER10 machines come in two variants, big-core and
> > small-core. Big-core machines are SMT8 from software's point of view,
> > but the low level platform topology ("xscom regist
On 7/12/24 14:02, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
POWER9 and POWER10 machines come in two variants, big-core and
small-core. Big-core machines are SMT8 from software's point of view,
but the low level platform topology ("xscom registers and pervasive
addressing"), these look more like a pair of small core
POWER9 and POWER10 machines come in two variants, big-core and
small-core. Big-core machines are SMT8 from software's point of view,
but the low level platform topology ("xscom registers and pervasive
addressing"), these look more like a pair of small cores ganged
together.
Presently the way this