On 10/22/2010 10:34 AM, [email protected] wrote:
---- Original Message ----
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Debian stock kernel config -- CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32?
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 02:00:45 -0500
Correct. The amount of effort needed for cross-CPU communication,
cache coherency and OS process coordination increases much more than
linearly as you add CPUs.
In fact IIRC the additional overhead follows the square of the number
of CPUs.
Maybe in brute-force implementations, but otherwise the machine
would bog down after just a few CPUs.
Note that h/w engineers and OS designers/writers have put a lot of
work into minimizing the overhead and maximize the parallelism of
extra CPUs.
--
Seek truth from facts.
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected]
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
