Bugs in the Linux scheduler can cause performance degradation in heavily multithreaded loads, but a do-it-yourself fix is available The Linux kernel scheduler has deficiencies that prevent a multicore ...
I've a Dell T3500 with a W3570 (original Nehalem) CPU with HT enabled. It has CentOS 6.4 installed. Socket [0] - [physical cores=4, logical cores=8, max online cores ever=4] TURBO ENABLED on 4 Cores, ...
Modifying any part of the Linux kernel source code is usually a challenging task most software developers would prefer to avoid, composed as it is thousands of code lines divided by hundred of files.