[PATCH] taskset: support more than 64 cores

[Laszlo Papp]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Matthieu Ternisien d'Ouville <
matthieu.tdo at 6wind.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

Right, thank you.

Please put this into the commit message next time. This is very important
information for accepting a change. Theoretical changes without practice
does not make any sense, so if you can show the practice, that makes a huge
difference and more sense.
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