On 10/02/2010 10:54 AM, Gilboa Davara 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). 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. > As for application support, it greatly depends on the application being > used. (E.g. Database, web-server, math, 3D, etc) > 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. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
