Hi Ashley,
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 12:37:55PM +0000, Ashley Nicholls wrote:
Being a bit of a Bitfolk newbie and a gentoo rice
racer, I was wondering if
anyone could tell me what the best -march setting would be?
I don't know, but here's a list of the servers and their CPU types
so you can work it out.
Host | CPU
----------------+----------------
barbar | Xeon L5420
corona | Xeon 3060
curacao | Xeon 5148
dunkel | Xeon L5410
faustino | Xeon L5410
kahlua | Opteron 2212 HE
kwak | Opteron 2212 HE
mumm | Xeon L5410
obstler | Opteron 2214 HE
Next one will be
urquell | Xeon E5520
Info on those
Xeon 3060:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Xeon_microprocessors#.22Conroe.2…
Xeon 5148:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Xeon_microprocessors#.22Woodcres…
Xeon L5410, L5420:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Xeon_microprocessors#.22Harperto…
Xeon E5520:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Xeon_microprocessors#.22Gainesto…
Opteron 2212 HE, 2214 HE:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_Opteron_microprocessors#Opteron_22…
I understand that its only really a concern if the VM
was migrated
to another host with differing CPU features. Does this ever happen
or are VM's fairly tightly coupled with the host?
At the moment it can't happen easily (i.e. without your knowledge)
because the storage is still local to each server, so moving a VPS
requires it to shut down and have its filesystem copied to the
destination host.
You might choose for your VPS to be moved if you ask for more RAM
and/or disk and there isn't enough available on the host you're
currently on.
It might also happen without any choice if there's a problem with
the host you're on requiring you to have your service moved to a
different one.
I think it would be a really bad idea to make your kernel/userland
not support all of the above CPUs, but I don't think that would be
very easy to do since they all have very similar features. As far as
I can see the lowest common denominator is "MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3".
Cheers,
Andy
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