Fedora SMP and 12 core cpu's

[JD]

On 10/02/2010 11:30 AM, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-10-02 at 11:18 -0700, JD wrote:
>> Not to be mean or anything....So please take it lightly:
>> Did I say linux has issues in supporting large smp? NO!
>> You are answering your own question. not mine.
> ...
>
>> Did I say anything about application support? No!
>> Again, you are answering your own question.
>>
>> I have found a few articles mentioning the smp granularity,
>> but do not discuss the linux smp implementation within the
>> context of granularity and overhead, and optimum degree
>> of granularity.
> Might be a language barrier on my part, but by your question, it wasn't
> apparent (at least not to me) if you're talking the locking granularity
> inside the Linux kernel (read: A theoretical question) or application
> performance running on Linux.
> As you talked about actual hardware (AMD Opteron CPU with 12 cores), I
> -assumed- that you were talking about application performance.
>
> -However-, saying "Taking it lightly" doesn't excuse you from "being
> excellent to each other" rule. Your answer was rude and uncalled for.
>
> - Gilboa
>
Sorry, Gilboa.
I felt that you were mis-steering the gist of my question.
Have a nice day!