Re: Scaling noise

Daniel Phillips
2003-09-04T02:17:38Z

On Thursday 04 September 2003 02:49, Larry McVoy wrote:
> It's much better to have a bunch of OS's and pull
> them together than have one and try and pry it apart.

This is bogus. The numbers clearly don't work if the ccCluster is made of
uniprocessors, so obviously the SMP locking has to be implemented anyway, to
get each node up to the size just below the supposed knee in the scaling
curve. This eliminates the argument about saving complexity and/or work.

The way Linux scales now, the locking stays out of the range where SSI could
compete up to, what? 128 processors? More? Maybe we'd better ask SGI about
that, but we already know what the answer is for 32: boring old SMP wins
hands down. Where is the machine that has the knee in the wrong part of the
curve? Oh, maybe we should all just stop whatever work we're doing and wait
ten years for one to show up.

But far be it from me to suggest that reality should intefere with your fun.

Regards,

Daniel