On 2016 Feb 25 (Thu) at 18:14:40 +0700 (+0700), Tinker wrote: :On 2016-02-25 06:04, Chris Cappuccio wrote: :>Tinker [[email protected]] wrote: :>>First, Thank you for this fantastically awesome OS. :>> :>> :>>Just curious, what are approx plans for kernel-multicore-ness next 1-2 :>>years? (Network IO, file/disk IO) :>> :> :>Network SMP (and other subsystems required to support it) is the heaviest :>area right now. :> :>> :>>Are there any relevant cases today where the singlecore architecture :>>actually is limiting? Say on a 20-core machine doing random file and :>>network :>>IO full-on. :>> :> :>Many, especially once you go past 4 or 8 cores. : :Regarding the network, yes I heard about the multicore-ization work too. :(Also I talked to someone whose router had a 700Mbps limit on his crappy :hardware because of the same constraint - not too bad though haha :) ) : :Any guess about when might it actually become usable, 6.1, 6.2, this year, :next? :
The plan is "make it better". And the timeframe is "when it is ready". This is pretty much always the plan and timeframe we have. Obviously we hope "sooner" rather than "later", but hopes don't make it ready. -- You know it's going to be a bad day when you want to put on the clothes you wore home from the party and there aren't any.
