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[NEWS] Linux 6.2 brings new qspinlock to bolster large system scalability

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tle:

--- Quote ---Up to now IBM Power processors on Linux have relied on the generic queued spinlock "qspinlock" implementation within the kernel but that has been found to cause latency and starvation issues on large IBM POWER10 servers
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Souce: https://www.phoronix.com/news/IBM-Power-Linux-6.2


I don't have enough knowledge to tell if it would benefit the POWER9

vikings.thum:

--- Quote ---[..]testing on upwards of 16 sockets with 1,920 CPU threads[..]
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Probably not, we only have two sockets. I also don't believe that 16-socket machines are over-the-counter computers.
I thought these days most companies run their stuff on virtualized commodity hardware #strengthinnumbers.

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