On: The Linux kernel has been accidentally hardcoded t...

[piggycurse]

> 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.

[nottheengineer → piggycurse]

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.