On Sat, 2010-10-02 at 11:18 -0700, JD wrote:
Not to be mean or anything....So please take it lightly:
Did I say linux has issues in supporting large smp? NO!
You are answering your own question. not mine.
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Did I say anything about application support? No!
Again, you are answering your own question.
I have found a few articles mentioning the smp granularity,
but do not discuss the linux smp implementation within the
context of granularity and overhead, and optimum degree
of granularity.
Might be a language barrier on my part, but by your question, it wasn't
apparent (at least not to me) if you're talking the locking granularity
inside the Linux kernel (read: A theoretical question) or application
performance running on Linux.
As you talked about actual hardware (AMD Opteron CPU with 12 cores), I
-assumed- that you were talking about application performance.
-However-, saying "Taking it lightly" doesn't excuse you from "being
excellent to each other" rule. Your answer was rude and uncalled for.
- Gilboa