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/ -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines