Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754047Ab0AHTKy (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jan 2010 14:10:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753975Ab0AHTKx (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jan 2010 14:10:53 -0500 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:42684 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753910Ab0AHTKx (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jan 2010 14:10:53 -0500 Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 20:10:51 +0100 From: Andi Kleen To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Andi Kleen , 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() Message-ID: <20100108191051.GA14141@basil.fritz.box> References: <20100106115233.5621bd5e.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20100106125625.b02c1b3a.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <1262969610.4244.36.camel@laptop> <87my0omo3n.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 680 Lines: 24 On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 12:56:08PM -0600, Christoph Lameter wrote: > 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? 2-4 sockets. > > Cheating with locks usually doesn't work anymore at these sizes. > > Cheating means? Not really fixing the underlying data structure problem. -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only. -- 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/