lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2003]   [Sep]   [3]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: Scaling noise
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 12:38:58AM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 08:10:33AM +0100, John Bradford wrote:
> > boxes, but no Linux image will run on more than $smallnum virtual
> > CPUs.
>
> Which is exactly what Larry is advocating. Essencially, instead of having
> one large image covering a large NUMA box, you have several images covering
> each NUMA node (even if they're in the same box).

Right, that is indeed what I believe needs to happen. Instead of spreading
one kernel out over all the processors, run multiple kernels. Most of the
scaling problems go away. Not all if you want to share memory between
kernels but for what John was talking about that is not even needed.
--
---
Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 13:48    [W:0.055 / U:0.164 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site