Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Scaling noise | From | Steven Cole <> | Date | 03 Sep 2003 09:31:04 -0600 |
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On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 06:47, Antonio Vargas wrote: > On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 08:25:36AM -0600, Steven Cole wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 23:08, Larry McVoy wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 02:33:56PM +1000, CaT wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > The question which will continue to be important in the next kernel > > series is: How to best accommodate the future many-CPU machines without > > sacrificing performance on the low-end? The change is that the 'many' > > in the above may start to double every few years. > > > > Some candidate answers to this have been discussed before, such as > > cache-coherent clusters. I just hope this gets worked out before the > > hardware ships. > > As you may probably know, CC-clusters were heavily advocated by the > same Larry McVoy who has started this thread. >
Yes, thanks. I'm well aware of that. I would like to get a discussion going again on CC-clusters, since that seems to be a way out of the scaling spiral. Here is an interesting link: http://www.opersys.com/adeos/practical-smp-clusters/
Steven
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