Re: SMP process/processor binding

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 11 Oct 1999 21:17:50 +0100 (BST)


> > Rather than posting the diffs here, they're available from the following
> > URL: http://teddy.xylene.com/smp-2.2.10.tar.gz
> > There's also a similar one for 2.0.37 (smp-2.0.37.tar.gz).
> >
> > If there's any significant interest in this, I'll move it along to
> > 2.3.19 (latest ?).
>
> Yes, absolutely.
> Does this also extend itself to the thread level ?

In Linux a thread is a process so yes. There is btw an established API +
some patches using it. The sysmp() interface is something a lot of big
cluster and SMP apps already handle as its used by SGI

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