Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Jan 1999 12:02:36 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: *** Draft 5 - Press Release *** |
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On Wed, 20 Jan 1999 jmm@raleigh.ibm.com wrote:
> > > b) "gives good performance on 12 processor" implies to me as a consumer > > > poor performance from 13 to 64 :) or maybe even 2-11... > > > > Supports != scales well. Different bottlenecks come into play on different > > sizes. I don't know where the number 12 came from, but your change > > excludes scalability problems at all. Dishonest. OTOH 'good performance' > > says nothing, so... <shrug> > > 12 was from the original draft5 version, and my change was to remove it. > Saying it can scale up to 64 processors is key (remember, we need people Do we? > to realize that this is competitor to NT Server, since NT Workstation And since when does NT run on a platform that allows 64-way SMP? Or 12-way, for that matter? IIRC 64-processor box was UltraSparc one.
> is limited to 2 processors). I'm not familiar enough with the SMP > support to know if the kernel is what scales worse than the hardware > at a certain point (12 procs it would seem), but the original phrasing > seemed to imply that we had up to 12 working and up to 64 kind-of working. > > Any kernel is going to have scaling issues getting up to 64 procs, I Sure. Just that some address them better than we do. > just want to make sure this press release is as positive as possible. You know, 'positive' is a strange word. BTW, I really hope that I'll never see this, erm, piece of work printed. Would cause *severe* embarrasment. Linux is *not* marketdroid-driven, so WTF do we imitate them?
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