Stefen AurisM to Furry [email protected] • 10 months agoYes, you can have too many CPU cores - Ampere's 192-core chips break ARM64 Linux kernel in two-socket systems, company requests higher core count support | Tom's Hardwarewww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up171arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up171arrow-down1external-linkYes, you can have too many CPU cores - Ampere's 192-core chips break ARM64 Linux kernel in two-socket systems, company requests higher core count support | Tom's Hardwarewww.tomshardware.comStefen AurisM to Furry [email protected] • 10 months agomessage-square5fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareYote.ziplinkfedilink23•10 months agoI bet someone at some point said “256 is futureproof”. We’re well into Amdahl’s Law at this point.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink10•10 months agoFrom the article: Back in 2021, a patch was sent out proposing the ARM64 CPU core limit be increased to 512, but Linux maintainers denied it because no CPU hardware was available at the time with more than 256 cores.
I bet someone at some point said “256 is futureproof”. We’re well into Amdahl’s Law at this point.
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