Re: Fedora SMP and 12 core cpu's

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On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 3:49 AM, Yorvyk <yorvik.ubunto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 19:54:27 +0200
Gilboa Davara <gilboad@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 09:59 -0700, JD wrote:
> > I was browsing for info on 12 core cpu's and found
> > that AMD released them or announced back in March.
> > The price is steep of course.
> > What I would like to know is the degree of granularity
> > of the SMP implementation in Linux.
> > Does anyone have an inside track on that?
> > Or point to some internal documentation?
>
> I'm not sure I understand the question.
> The Linux kernel itself has no issues supporting 100's of CPUs (either
> real, or SMT).
>
Apparently it does have issues http://www.conceivablytech.com/3166/science-research/current-operating-systems-may-only-make-sense-up-to-48-cores/


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The MIT paper they refer to in the article:
http://ppi.fudan.edu.cn/system/publications/paper/corey-osdi08.pdf

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