Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 10:39:06 +1000 From: Jan Mikkelsen <janm@transactionware.com> To: Andreas Nilsson <andrnils@gmail.com> Cc: George Mitchell <george+freebsd@m5p.com>, FreeBSD Stable Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Not to beat a dead horse, but ... Message-ID: <A450351A-6745-4507-AB76-89EC3F6C6C3C@transactionware.com> In-Reply-To: <CAPS9%2BSuR=F2jCsp=%2BHvU3kaZvTtULZ5D%2BkX-1PZdmHd1RP1RSw@mail.gmail.com> References: <5394A848.7030609@m5p.com> <CAPS9%2BSuR=F2jCsp=%2BHvU3kaZvTtULZ5D%2BkX-1PZdmHd1RP1RSw@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, On 9 Jun 2014, at 4:58, Andreas Nilsson <andrnils@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 8:15 PM, George Mitchell = <george+freebsd@m5p.com> > wrote: >=20 >> [ =85 ] >> The party line seems to be, "Well, everybody knows SCHED_ULE sucks >> on uniprocessors." Hello? Not everybody has upgraded to multiple >> core or hyperthreaded processors yet. Do we really want to write >> off every uniprocessor piece of hardware out here? >>=20 > Yes? Can you even buy a system today that is uniprocessor? My phone is = a > dual core thing, and it got written of because of its "meagre" = hardware. > Top of the line phones has 8 cores. So, seriously, what non-ancient = system > have you acquired that is uniprocessor? Please include links for = available > hardware for laptops, desktops or servers. > /A Embedded systems. There are lots of them. Your phone is pretty close to = a general purpose computer now and has to do a lot of stuff, including = being a gaming device. Lots of workloads fit into smaller systems. See: http://www.soekris.com/ http://www.advantech.com/ http://www.pcengines.ch/ http://www.chippc.com/ Those are just the Intel based ones - for ARM and MIPS there is a very = long list (we don=92t run FreeBSD on those yet, but we are planning to.) Regards, Jan.
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