Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753885Ab0AHS4r (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jan 2010 13:56:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753371Ab0AHS4q (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jan 2010 13:56:46 -0500 Received: from nlpi129.sbcis.sbc.com ([207.115.36.143]:48784 "EHLO nlpi129.prodigy.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752709Ab0AHS4q (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jan 2010 13:56:46 -0500 Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 12:56:08 -0600 (CST) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: cl@router.home To: Andi Kleen cc: Linus Torvalds , Peter Zijlstra , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Minchan Kim , "Paul E. McKenney" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , "hugh.dickins" , Nick Piggin , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 6/8] mm: handle_speculative_fault() In-Reply-To: <87my0omo3n.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> Message-ID: References: <20100104182429.833180340@chello.nl> <28c262361001042029w4b95f226lf54a3ed6a4291a3b@mail.gmail.com> <20100105134357.4bfb4951.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20100105143046.73938ea2.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20100105163939.a3f146fb.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20100106092212.c8766aa8.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20100106115233.5621bd5e.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20100106125625.b02c1b3a.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <1262969610.4244.36.camel@laptop> <87my0omo3n.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 464 Lines: 14 On Fri, 8 Jan 2010, Andi Kleen wrote: > This year's standard server will be more like 24-64 "cpus" What will it be? 2 or 4 sockets? > Cheating with locks usually doesn't work anymore at these sizes. Cheating means? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/