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…
  • Die4Ever@programming.devEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Clickbait title, it uses more than 8 cores just fine (obviously), but the scaling factor for how often threads should get scheduled wasn’t going above 8 cores. So basically it was just running a bit suboptimally for extremely heavy multitasking, will be interesting if anyone manages to get a decent measurement on how much the fix helps.