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by dom0 3471 days ago
> What modifications are required to be made to the linux kernel/tcp stack to take advantage of 48+ cores, in order to achieve a more linear scalability?

https://xkcd.com/619/ isn't a joke.

Linux is the default operating system of huge NUMA systems with hundreds of CPUs / thousands of cores.

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They have put quite a bit of work into scaling, but that doesn't mean it's perfect yet.