By: Paul (no.delete@this.thanks.com), July 25, 2007 11:42 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
Shankhadeep (shank15217@gmail.com) on 7/25/07 wrote:
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>Con quit because he believed that there is no enough focus on desktop performance
>in kernel development. One of the key points was that the current cpu scheduler
>in standard kernels isn't appropriate for desktops. As we are approaching quad cpu
>desktops in the mainstream will there be a renewed focus on improving Linux performance on the desktop?
Given that stuff that was regarded as "Enterprise" a few years ago such as decent SMP scaling (and SMP support at all), >1GB memory support on x86 and even NUMA. Is now "Desktop" I would say the position of having a keeping a single kernel for everything (with a few configurable options) rather than trying to tweak for a particular segment as Con was trying to do has been entirely vindicated.
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>Con quit because he believed that there is no enough focus on desktop performance
>in kernel development. One of the key points was that the current cpu scheduler
>in standard kernels isn't appropriate for desktops. As we are approaching quad cpu
>desktops in the mainstream will there be a renewed focus on improving Linux performance on the desktop?
Given that stuff that was regarded as "Enterprise" a few years ago such as decent SMP scaling (and SMP support at all), >1GB memory support on x86 and even NUMA. Is now "Desktop" I would say the position of having a keeping a single kernel for everything (with a few configurable options) rather than trying to tweak for a particular segment as Con was trying to do has been entirely vindicated.
| Topic | Posted By | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Linux on Desktops | Shankhadeep | 2007/07/25 10:46 AM |
| Linux on Desktops | Paul | 2007/07/25 11:42 AM |
| Linux on Desktops | Shankhadeep | 2007/07/25 02:15 PM |
| Linux on Desktops | Max | 2007/07/25 02:43 PM |
| Linux on Desktops | JasonB | 2007/07/26 11:38 PM |
| Linux on Desktops | Foo_ | 2007/07/26 02:53 AM |
| Linux on Desktops | Michael S | 2007/07/26 04:22 AM |
| Linux on Desktops | Paul | 2007/07/26 01:56 PM |
| Linux on Desktops | Foo_ | 2007/07/26 02:34 PM |
| Linux on Desktops | Jukka Larja | 2007/07/27 04:42 AM |
| Linux on Desktops | Shankhadeep | 2007/07/27 11:52 AM |
| Linux on Desktops | Shankhadeep | 2007/07/27 12:00 PM |
| Linux on Desktops | _Arthur | 2007/07/27 02:56 PM |
| Linux on Desktops | Linus Torvalds | 2007/07/25 12:03 PM |
| Linux on Desktops | Shankhadeep | 2007/07/25 01:36 PM |
| Linux on Desktops | Arun Ramakrishnan | 2007/07/25 08:11 PM |