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Running 100,000 Parallel Threads

Posted by michael on from the when-one-isn't-enough dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This story explains how the latest Linux development kernel is now able to start and stop over 100,000 threads in parallel in only 2 seconds (about 14 minutes 58 seconds faster than with earlier Linux kernels)! Much of this impressive work is thanks to Ingo Molnar, author of the O(1) scheduler recently merged with the 2.5 Linux development kernel."

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  1. Parallelism by inkfox · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is very cool; but does it scale to multiple CPU systems? More and more, SMP, split-bus and multi-core architectures are going to be taking over. If this holds up in those environments, Linux may actually have a leg up on some of the dedicated task heavyweights.

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