<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:small">Hi,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:small">It has been a LONNNNGGGG time since I did any kernel work on any operating system, but I will point out that scheduling a PROCESS (which has associated with it memory, etc.) and scheduling a THREAD (which is very lightweight and is typically "only" an additional core) are two different beasts.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:small">Unless you have your process swapped in and your memory set to go it will not make any difference how many cores you have in the CPU. On the other hand I have seen programs where ONE process could keep hundreds of cores (threads) busy.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:small">Just sayin'</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:small">md<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 12:25 PM Niel Bornstein via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">One of my engineers pointed me to this Reddit thread.<div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/17uzzt3/comment/k978mr7/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button" target="_blank">https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/17uzzt3/comment/k978mr7/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button</a><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 12:01 PM Boris Borisov via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">If glanced over that this morning.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://thehftguy.com/2023/11/14/the-linux-kernel-has-been-accidentally-hardcoded-to-a-maximum-of-8-cores-for-nearly-20-years/" target="_blank">https://thehftguy.com/2023/11/14/the-linux-kernel-has-been-accidentally-hardcoded-to-a-maximum-of-8-cores-for-nearly-20-years/</a><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Don't shoot I'm just the messenger. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">That is why I'm asking if someone knows something. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">My daily driver is an old E8400 so I just really asked from curiosity.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Nov 15, 2023, 10:06 Jim Kinney via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">??? Got a cluster with 128 cores per node, 64 physical cores on both cpus, and they are all in use constantly. Got a specific kernel version or patch? </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Nov 15, 2023, 9:13 AM Boris Borisov via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Read somewhere today that linux kernel has been accidentally locked to 8 cores.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Anyone to collaborate. </div></div>
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