Re: kernel 2.6.18+ SMP question

On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 03:21:58PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
how about 16x more parallel? at least to the extent that your workload
is able to parallelize (is that a word?). IOW, if you have lots of
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No!, it is yet another Americanism. :-)

tasks running independently of each other and/or you have tasks
running code that can take advantage of parallel processing, then
those things that fit that criterion will run in parallel. And those
tasks will then complete faster because they have more cpu time than
they would get in a system with fewer cpus.

At least that's how it seems to me.

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Chris.
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