| Date | Tue, 31 Oct 2000 22:31:35 +0100 (CET) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.18Pre Lan Performance Rocks! |
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On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> It relies on an anomoly in the design of Intel's cache controllers, > and with memory based applications, I can get 120% scaling per > procesoor by jugling the working set of executable code cached accros > each processor. There's sample code with this kernel you can use to > verify....
FYI, this is a very old concept and a scalability FAQ item. It's called "sublinear scaling", and SGI folks have already published articles about it 10 years ago.
Ingo
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