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Re:The Linux kernel has been accidentally hardcoded to a max... by piggycurse on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @04:54AM (#38261229)
> It’s problematic that the kernel was hardcoded to a maximum of 8 cores

Why? The article show no evidence of this being problematic.

> It can’t be good to reschedule hundreds of tasks every few milliseconds, maybe on a different core, maybe on a different die. It can’t be good for performance and cache locality.

Make a PoC and prove it.

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Re:The Linux kernel has been accidentally hardcoded to a max... by nottheengineer on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @07:15AM (#38262345)
I'm pretty sure schedulers are just black magic and anyone who doesn't work directly with them is unqualified to make statements like these.
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