2 Oct
2010
2 Oct
'10
7:14 p.m.
On 10/02/2010 01:05 PM, Samuel Kidman wrote:
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 3:49 AM, Yorvyk <yorvik.ubunto@googlemail.com mailto:yorvik.ubunto@googlemail.com> wrote:
On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 19:54:27 +0200 Gilboa Davara <gilboad@gmail.com <mailto:gilboad@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.