The Linux kernel has been accidentally hardcoded to a maximum of 8 cores for nearly 20 years
The Linux kernel has been accidentally hardcoded to a maximum of 8 cores for nearly 20 years
thehftguy.com The Linux kernel has been accidentally hardcoded to a maximum of 8 cores for the past 15 years and nobody noticed
A bit of history I’ve been diving into the Linux kernel scheduler recently. To give a short brief introduction to scheduling, imagine a single CPU single core system. The operating system all…
I'm not smart enough to verify the accuracy of this claim, nor exactly what the implications are, but it seems like it might improve performance if fixed.
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I took the title from the link, which doesn't exactly match the title on the page. That's why one says 20 years and the other says 15 years.