On Thursday 29 January 2004 20:26, Andi Kleen wrote:
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 20:12:54 +0100
Oh sorry. I wrote a wrong things last time !
In memory config "Bank interleaving" and "Node interleaving" are disabled.
Bank Interleaving can be enabled, just Node interleaving should be disabled.
The northbridge configuration says node interleaving is enabled though. I checked again the BIOS - the "Node interleaving" was at 'Auto', grr. After setting it to disabled it works now!
<6>Scanning NUMA topology in Northbridge 24 <6>Node 0 MemBase 0000000000000000 Limit 000000003fffffff <6>Node 1 MemBase 0000000040000000 Limit 000000007fff0000 <6>Using node hash shift of 24 <4>Bootmem setup node 0 0000000000000000-000000003fffffff <4>Bootmem setup node 1 0000000040000000-000000007fff0000 According to Tyan's manual the settings are 'Disabled'/'Enabled', with Disabled as default. But in the real BIOS it is 'Auto'/'Disabled' and set to 'Auto' by Tyan. So I recommend all owners of the Thunder K8W to verify the settings.
Or maybe you only have DIMMs in the slots of one CPU. It's possible that the BIOS then sets the interleaving mode, although it's pointless. It wouldn't make a difference in that case. I have 4 Corsair 512MB DDR400 modules, connected 2 to each CPU.
Anyways, the performance difference is not that big so I wouldn't worry too much about it. Let's see now ...
Thanks for your help, Frank