On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:45:07 -0400 Jeffrey Altman <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I wonder why 128 threads (or 256 with 1.6) can't make use of more > > than four cores though? > > Resource contention between threads executing on separate sockets is > extremely expensive and there is no practical method of enforcing > processor affinity for all of the file server threads to ensure that > they only execute on cores within a single socket. At least not that > I am aware of on Linux. Windows would make such thread execution > restrictions trivial. Linux, Solaris, and AIX all have this ability; I assume other Unix platforms do, as well. -- Andrew Deason [email protected] _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
