Comments on: Significant memory handling changes in DragonFly

By: Zoey4ever

Zoey4ever — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 20:37:23 +0000

@Anonymous

I had a 2 socket dual Pentium 3 board with DragonFly 1.2 back in 2004. So DFly supports multi socket CPUs for a loooong time now…

Also the AMD Opteron server used to build packages is multi socket, too http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2016-August/313034.html

Justin Sherrill — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 02:23:31 +0000

There wasn’t NUMA-specific work until recently. I don’t know how that equates to not supporting multiple processors.

If you want to ask questions about NUMA implementation, you’ll get a lot farther asking the people doing the commits. (#dragonflybsd on EFNet)

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 01:32:14 +0000

So did DragonFly not support NUMA until recently?

Said another way, DragonFly didn’t support multi socket servers until recently?