The Linux kernel has been accidentally hardcoded to a maximum of 8 cores for the past 15 years and nobody noticed
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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.

  • Pantherina@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Heard of that, because you know, a core Duo was a thing. They didnt think anything bigger was possible, some time in the past. But afaik thats pretty old news