I thought the basic premise was wrong that the Kernel only uses a maximum of 8 cores. It was rather some scheduling logic that was implemented with a maximum of

I thought the basic premise was wrong that the Kernel only uses a maximum of 8 cores. It was rather some scheduling logic that was implemented with a maximum of 8 cores in mind. So the author may have been right that something was wrong, but also wrong about the details (like in this article)