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Date:      Tue, 10 Jun 2014 10:39:06 +1000
From:      Jan Mikkelsen <janm@transactionware.com>
To:        Andreas Nilsson <andrnils@gmail.com>
Cc:        George Mitchell <george+freebsd@m5p.com>, FreeBSD Stable Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Not to beat a dead horse, but ...
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Hi,

On 9 Jun 2014, at 4:58, Andreas Nilsson <andrnils@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 8:15 PM, George Mitchell =
<george+freebsd@m5p.com>
> wrote:
>=20
>> [ =85 ]
>> 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?
>>=20
> 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.
> /A

Embedded systems. There are lots of them. Your phone is pretty close to =
a general purpose computer now and has to do a lot of stuff, including =
being a gaming device. Lots of workloads fit into smaller systems. See:

http://www.soekris.com/
http://www.advantech.com/
http://www.pcengines.ch/
http://www.chippc.com/

Those are just the Intel based ones - for ARM and MIPS there is a very =
long list (we don=92t run FreeBSD on those yet, but we are planning to.)

Regards,

Jan.




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