Re: NUMCPU >1 = IEE331A EXCESSIVE DISABLED SPIN LOOP DETECTED

"paoloG" <[email protected]>
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--- In [email protected], "laddiehanus" <laddiehanus@...> wrote:
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> IIRC machines of the era when 3.8 was current only had 2 CPU's max. Even the 3084 which had 4 cpu's had to be partitioned into 2 sides with 2 CPU's each when in 370 mode and SP 1.3 was required. 
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> I think that 3.8 support of 2 cpu's was buggy (but I am not really not sure) and that SE or SP was really needed to get multi cpu support to run well.
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> The data structures do support 16 look at macros ihalccat and ihapccat in the source code
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> Laddie
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The 3084 with 4 cpu's was supported in MP mode only by MVS/XA; and it was the first IBM mainframe to have more than 2 processors (in the year 1982 IIRC).

So I guess than MVS 3.8 never supported more than 2 CPU's (as you correctly said).

Regards.

Paul
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