On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 09:43:07AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > We'll see. The real problem is that I'm not sure if I can even see the > scalability issue on any machine I actually personally want to use > (read: silent). On my current system I can only get up to 15% > _raw_spin_lock by just stat'ing the same file over and over and over > again from lots of threads. Yeah, silent basically limits you to i7 single socket systems and sadly Intel doesn't seem to want to make those with more than 4 cores on :/ I've got a i7-K part (SNB iirc) with a _huge_ scythe cooler and a high efficiency fanless PSU for a system that's near noiseless -- as in my Thinkpad actually makes more noise. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
