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

  • madasi@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
    5·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • merthyr1831@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    Would’ve been nice of them to compile the kernel with a fix applied to see how much of an impact it has (though even in the post they seem to suggest that it’s not that impactful unless you run massive clusters)