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you don’t have to say “in datacenters” when talking about linux, that is the obvious context in the vast majority of cases
Why you think so? Especially for HN readers decent chunk is using Linux. (I typed this on Linux PC).
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why you think so? Especially for HN readers decent chunk is using Linux. (I typed this on Linux PC).
Agree. On reading the headline, I was hoping it would extend my laptop battery life.
Linux added a busy polling feature for high performance networking. Most Linux software does not use it, but software used in datacenters (e.g. by CDNs) that does use it makes the system very energy inefficient when things are not busy. This patch gives the the kernel the ability to turn that off when not busy to regain energy efficiency until things become busy again. The article name is somewhat misleading, since i…
you don’t have to say “in datacenters” when talking about linux, that is the obvious context in the vast majority of cases
This is specifically a change to the Linux kernel, which is much, much more broadly successful.
The flip side of this is meta having a hack that keeps their GPUs busy so that the power draw is more stable during llm training (eg don't want a huge power drop when synchronizing batches)
I'm not au fait with network data centres though, how similar are they in terms of their demands?
Linux added a busy polling feature for high performance networking. Most Linux software does not use it, but software used in datacenters (e.g. by CDNs) that does use it makes the system very energy inefficient when things are not busy. This patch gives the the kernel the ability to turn that off when not busy to regain energy efficiency until things become busy again. The article name is somewhat misleading, since i…
you don’t have to say “in datacenters” when talking about linux, that is the obvious context in the vast majority of cases
This is really cool. As a high-performance computing professional, I've often wondered how much energy is wasted due to inefficient code and how much that is a problem as planetary compute scales up. For me, it feels like a moral imperative to make my code as efficient as possible, especially when a job will take months to run on hundreds of CPU.
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I mean I get it, you dislike Gnome for whatever reason and want to cast some shade - that part is clear. What I don't really understand is how you decided this context is somehow going to be received in a way to further your view... it's just so illogical that my reaction is "support the Gnome folks".
Actually - due to this comment I just donated $50 to the GNOME Foundation. Either the guerilla marketing worked, or your mission failed - in any case I hope this was an effective lesson in messaging.