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The Linux kernel has been accidentally hardcoded to a maximum of 8 cores

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The Linux kernel has been accidentally hardcoded to a maximum of 8 cores

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Hacker News@derp.fooEnglish · 9 months ago

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

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…

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Clickbait and false, author has no idea what he’s talking about

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