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

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Fri Jan 08 2010 - 14:28:24 EST


On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 11:11:32AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 8 Jan 2010, Christoph Lameter wrote:
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> > 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?
>
> I think we can be pretty safe in saying that two sockets is going to be
> overwhelmingly the more common case.

With 24 CPU threads cheating is very difficult too.

Besides even the "uncommon" part of a large pie can be still a lot of systems.

-Andi

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