Re: Solving M produces N consumers scalability problem

[Andi Kleen]

> This solution pretty-much equivalent to per-CPU data structures. And

No it's not, it doesn't require one queue per CPU.

A CPU these days isn't really a CPU anymore, but often a CPU thread,
which is much more light weight. So having a queue per CPU is often
total overkill, and amplifies any per queue costs (like invalidation)

-Andi
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