Comment by piggycurse
2 years ago
> It’s problematic that the kernel was hardcoded to a maximum of 8 cores
Why? The article show no evidence of this being problematic.
> It can’t be good to reschedule hundreds of tasks every few milliseconds, maybe on a different core, maybe on a different die. It can’t be good for performance and cache locality.
Make a PoC and prove it.
I'm pretty sure schedulers are just black magic and anyone who doesn't work directly with them is unqualified to make statements like these.