SMP scalability: 8 -> 32 CPUs

Eloy A. Paris (eparis@ven.ra.rockwell.com)
28 Nov 1998 00:50:03 GMT

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Guys, excuse my ignorance, but does anyone know why Linus said in his
last Linux Journal interview that right now it is fairly unrealistic
to expect scaling from 8 to 32 CPUs? What's stopping Linux to scale in
terms of CPUs?

Thanks for educating me!

peloy.-

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