Re: [RFC][PATCH 6/8] mm: handle_speculative_fault()

[Andi Kleen]

On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 12:56:08PM -0600, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Jan 2010, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> > This year's standard server will be more like 24-64 "cpus"
> 
> What will it be? 2 or 4 sockets?

2-4 sockets.
 
> > Cheating with locks usually doesn't work anymore at these sizes.
> 
> Cheating means?

Not really fixing the underlying data structure problem.

-Andi

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