Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Wed, 3 Sep 2003 19:35:01 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: Scaling noise |
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On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 08:19:26PM -0600, Steven Cole wrote: > I would never call the SMP locking pathetic, but it could be improved. > Looking at Figure 6 (Star-CD, 1-64 processors on Altix) and Figure 7 > (Gaussian 1-32 processors on Altix) on page 13 of "Linux Scalability for > Large NUMA Systems", available for download here: > http://archive.linuxsymposium.org/ols2003/Proceedings/ > it appears that for those applications, the curves begin to flatten > rather alarmingly. This may have little to do with locking overhead.
Those numbers are 2.4.x
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