Re: latest linus-2.5 BK broken

Cort Dougan
2002-06-20T16:42:55Z

"Beating the SMP horse to death" does make sense for 2 processor SMP
machines. When 64 processor machines become commodity (Linux is a
commodity hardware OS) something will have to be done. When research
groups put Linux on 1k processors - it's an experiment. I don't think they
have much right to complain that Linux doesn't scale up to that level -
it's not designed to.

That being said, large clusters are an interesting research area but it is
_not_ a failing of Linux that it doesn't scale to them.