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

Tony Harminc <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.emulators.turnkey-mvs
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On 19 May 2010 10:55, Mike Stramba <[email protected]> wrote:
> So MVS38j *will* use multiple cpus ?

It will use up to 2.

> Or is that Hercules starting the O.S on the multiple cpus?

I don't understand what that means.

> The turnkey "stock" config has NUMCPU 1,  is that because the multiple
> CPU feature didn't exist at the time Turnkey was released, or other
> reasons ?

The first release of MVS, i.e. 2.0, supported up to 16 CPUs, though
it's not clear if it was ever tested beyond running it in the custom
VM system that existed for its development.

Some time between 2.0 and 3.8 (3.0, iirc) the code to support more
than 2 CPUs was effectively removed, though the control blocks
continue to support up to 16.

Tony H.
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