Subject: Re: rps perfomance WAS(Re: rps: question

From: jamal <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:16:21 -0400

On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 09:41 -0700, Rick Jones wrote:

> IPS (~= RPS) was running on shared FSB HP9000's.  Now, that was also a BSD 
> networking stack with netisrq's and the like.  TOPS (~= RFS) was also run on 
> shared FSB HP9000s, as well as CC-NUMA HP9000s and Integrity systems.  TOPS was 
> implemented in a Streams-based stack tracing its history to a common ancestor 
> with Solaris (Mentat).

Sounds interesting.
Wikipedia information overload. Any arch description of the HP9000? 
Did your scheme use IPIs to message the other CPUs?

cheers,
jamal