The Linux kernel has been accidentally hardcoded to a maximum of 8 cores for the past 15 years and nobody noticed
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A bit of history I’ve been diving into the Linux kernel scheduler recently. To give a short brief introduction to scheduling, imagine a single CPU single core system. The operating system all…

I’m not smart enough to verify the accuracy of this claim, nor exactly what the implications are, but it seems like it might improve performance if fixed.

  • The Doctor@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I agree. Some of the Linux servers I used to run at work in the early 00’s were 12 to 16 core monsters (for the time) and the kernel didn’t even blink.