Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 16:09:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> To: andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com> Cc: George Mitchell <george+freebsd@m5p.com>, FreeBSD Stable Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, Andreas Nilsson <andrnils@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Not to beat a dead horse, but ... Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.64.1406091528060.6513@sea.ntplx.net> In-Reply-To: <20140609192217.GA69813@ozzmosis.com> References: <5394A848.7030609@m5p.com> <CAPS9%2BSuR=F2jCsp=%2BHvU3kaZvTtULZ5D%2BkX-1PZdmHd1RP1RSw@mail.gmail.com> <20140609192217.GA69813@ozzmosis.com>
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On Tue, 10 Jun 2014, andrew clarke wrote: > On Sun 2014-06-08 20:58:36 UTC+0200, Andreas Nilsson (andrnils@gmail.com) wrote: > >>> The party line seems to be, "Well, everybody knows SCHED_ULE sucks >>> on uniprocessors." Hello? Not everybody has upgraded to multiple >>> core or hyperthreaded processors yet. Do we really want to write >>> off every uniprocessor piece of hardware out here? >>> >> Yes? Can you even buy a system today that is uniprocessor? My phone is >> a dual core thing, and it got written of because of its "meagre" >> hardware. Top of the line phones has 8 cores. So, seriously, what >> non-ancient system have you acquired that is uniprocessor? Please >> include links for available hardware for laptops, desktops or servers. > > Don't discount virtual machines, where a FreeBSD guest OS might be > configured to use only one of the host system's CPUs. People are also using FreeBSD on small embedded systems, both x86 and non-x86 based. All the world is not a multiprocessor x86 system. http://www.diamondsystems.com/products/sbcs.php -- DE
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