On 09/30/2010 10:12 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 09:59:38 -0700 > JD wrote: > >> What I would like to know is the degree of granularity >> of the SMP implementation in Linux. > Don't know what granularity means :-), but we have run kernel.org > kernels on up to 64 core machines here at work. Granularity applies to the locking scheme in the kernel. It is how the kernel must prevent different cors/cpus from clobberig the same kernel global data at the same time.
Some locking schemes are coarser than others. There is an optimal point where further granularity will decrease performance. I was looking for papers/studies that may have been done to see at what degree of granularity the payoff was highest. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
