Eloy> Guys, excuse my ignorance, but does anyone know why Linus said
Eloy> in his last Linux Journal interview that right now it is fairly
Eloy> unrealistic to expect scaling from 8 to 32 CPUs? What's stopping
Eloy> Linux to scale in terms of CPUs?
Because we still haven't fine grained all the spinlocks in the kernel
yet. The IO subsystem still uses one global lock etc.
2.3+ work.
Jes
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