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Linux Gains Support for NUMA

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the big-iron-at-your-hip dept.

soosterh writes "CNet has an article about a NUMA patch from IBM. It says that the improvement adds some support in Linux for nonuniform memory access, or NUMA, a design for higher-end servers with many processors. Linus Torvalds, the original creator of the operating system and still its top authority, accepted the update this month into version 2.5, the current test version of the software."

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  1. Re:Linux lacks democracy by gilesjuk · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You underestimate the intelligence of Linus, he initially refused the NUMA patch as it affected performance on non NUMA systems. So the author of the patch got some help with it and the patch now works without hindering non NUMA systems.

    Surely this is quality control at its finest? every project has its project manager. Everyone is free to write their own applications without Linus controlling them, he just looks after his project which happens to be the kernel. Without strict quality control the kernel would be a right old dogs dinner by now.