Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+lists/linux/kernel/news/@tequila.cs.yale.edu> | Subject | Re: andrea buffer code (2.2.9-C.gz) | Date | 23 May 1999 19:44:52 -0400 |
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>>>>> "Andrea" == Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> writes: > Impacting runtime performances to SMP scale better, is going to lose > according to me. I think that if you want to SMP scale better it worth to > pay _only_ with memory wastage and _not_ with wasted CPU cycles.
The rule generally goes in the other directions for fairly obvious reasons: the amount of memory-resources per CPU is usually lower on an SMP so you want to save memory more than you want to save CPU.
Stefan
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