Re: latest linus-2.5 BK broken

Cort Dougan (cort@fsmlabs.com)
Thu, 20 Jun 2002 10:30:03 -0600


"Beating the SMP horse to death" does make sense for 2 processor SMP
machines. When 64 processor machines become commodity (Linux is a
commodity hardware OS) something will have to be done. When research
groups put Linux on 1k processors - it's an experiment. I don't think they
have much right to complain that Linux doesn't scale up to that level -
it's not designed to.

That being said, large clusters are an interesting research area but it is
_not_ a failing of Linux that it doesn't scale to them.
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