Re: Scaling noise

Steven Cole
2003-09-03T15:36:09Z

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