Intel Preparing The Linux Kernel For Cascade Lake AP Multi-Die Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel Preparing The Linux Kernel For Cascade Lake AP Multi-Die Support

Intel developers have begun posting their Linux kernel patches for enabling multi-die/package topology support to the Linux kernel as part of their Cascade Lake AP upbringing...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-Multi-Chip-Cascade-Lake

[M@yeulC]

How do you like the glue, Intel? :P

[edwaleni]

Make sure you tell Microsoft how to do NUMA while you are at it.

[chithanh]

expected to be up to 48 cores / 96 threads per package

Really? I thought that Intel would not say whether HyperThreading will come for these chips.

The comparison benchmarks from SC2018 against the Epyc and Xeon SP had SMT/HyperThreading disabled for the latter two.

[carewolf]

Make sure you tell Microsoft how to do NUMA while you are at it.

Ironically they have gotten better at it thanks to AMD