On 10/02/2010 01:05 PM, Samuel Kidman wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 3:49 AM, Yorvyk <yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com > <mailto:yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com>> wrote: > > On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 19:54:27 +0200 > Gilboa Davara <gilb...@gmail.com <mailto:gilb...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 09:59 -0700, JD wrote: > > > I was browsing for info on 12 core cpu's and found > > > that AMD released them or announced back in March. > > > The price is steep of course. > > > What I would like to know is the degree of granularity > > > of the SMP implementation in Linux. > > > Does anyone have an inside track on that? > > > Or point to some internal documentation? > > > > I'm not sure I understand the question. > > The Linux kernel itself has no issues supporting 100's of CPUs > (either > > real, or SMT). > > > Apparently it does have issues > > http://www.conceivablytech.com/3166/science-research/current-operating-systems-may-only-make-sense-up-to-48-cores/ >
Seems like the writing is on the wall: Linux must evolve into an an efficient OS for massively parallel architectures. -- 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
