| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method, apparatus and program for booting a NUMA machine. SOLUTION: The invention comprises a step for configuring a plurality of standalone, symmetrical multiprocessing(SMP) systems to operate within a NUMA system. A master processor is selected within each SMP, and the other processors in the SMP are designated as NUMA slave processors. A NUMA master processor is then chosen from the SMP master processors, and the other SMP master processors are designated as NUMA slave processors. A unique NUMA ID is assigned to each SMP, that will be a part of the NUMA system. The SMPs are then booted in NUMA mode in one-pass using memory coherency, established at the beginning of the extension of system firmware.
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