Re: Scaling noise

Antonio Vargas
2003-09-03T15:17:25Z

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.

Greets, Antonio.