Re: Scaling noise

[Antonio Vargas]

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.
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