Re: SMP Kernel question.

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 6 May 1996 20:48:59 +0100 (BST)


> Hmm, can a you use 200% (or more if you've >2 proccessors), with a single
> process ? I'd only expect >100% on multithreaded process that's split
> across 2 or more of the processors (ie current pthreads wouldn't do
> this). Or am I way off ?

Total not per task. You need multiple tasks (in Linux fork() is a special
case of clone and a process and thread are virtually the same thing)

Alan