[PATCH] taskset: support more than 64 cores

[Matthieu Ternisien d'Ouville]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 4:32 AM, Isaac Dunham <ibid.ag at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 10:35:46PM +0100, Laszlo Papp wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 10:33 PM, Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen at iki.fi>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 10:27:12PM +0100, Laszlo Papp wrote:
> > > > Show me one typical embedded system that is high-volume and has more
> than
> > > > 64 cores. Even the full-fledged iphone tablets are not there and
> even if
> > > > they were, they would use complete utils rather than chopped most
> > > probably
> > > > anyhow. To me, this feature does not seem to fit busybox's goal
> unless
> > > > Apple, Samsung, etc were not notified about some recent boom in the
> > > > semiconductor industry.
> > >
> > > Embedded != consumer electronics.
> > >
> >
> > Not quite sure what you are trying to achieve, but you wrote embedded
> > systems _word-by-word_, and I asked for one typical example with more
> than
> > 64 cores where busybox is so much needed.
>
> I'm pretty sure that Matthieu (the patch author) just said that 6wind (his
> company)
> uses or builds the sort of hardware where this is relevant.
>
>
Yes, for example we have a TILEGX72 pci express card which does not have an
hard drive. And even if there is a lot of RAM, we don't want to use it for
the filesystem, the RAM is reserved for other function.
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