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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
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	   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.

-- 
Chris.
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