From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752621Ab0JKWzb (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Oct 2010 18:55:31 -0400 Received: from mail-ww0-f44.google.com ([74.125.82.44]:61364 "EHLO mail-ww0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751108Ab0JKWza convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Oct 2010 18:55:30 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=VNDfOHQu0SrSEYcPh8EsJylqwcETT9mLqERZw5VwAsewW+JXpDlfhiWwm7jS3rFUbi Gbyk0F2yTg1v6vcT6gowNbX0FCXh/9gf2yRWw69xMOggRTIt/LSSnVww16Zs69V88c9t tgVJT0w2TeCcGV6iGw97ZgEdJstEo48E/hb7k= From: Diego Calleja Reply-To: diegocg@gmail.com To: Cyrus Massoumi Subject: Re: Kernel Scalability to 48 cores Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 00:55:23 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.36-rc7-dirty; KDE/4.5.1; x86_64; ; ) Cc: LKML References: <4CB381DB.1040206@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <4CB381DB.1040206@gmx.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Message-Id: <201010120055.23602.diegocg@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Lunes, 11 de Octubre de 2010 23:30:03 Cyrus Massoumi escribió: > A friend just sent me the following PDF about Linux Scalability to many cores and I thought it might be interesting to the list for further discussion. > It's about scalability problems of the Linux kernel and applications with 48 and more cores. > > http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/linux:osdi10.pdf Some of the contention points mentioned in Figure 1 seem to be the same things that Nick Piggin is trying to solve with his VFS scalability patchset.