Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Hi,
I think this one would be a great thing to have in Debian, although my time currently doesn't permit packaging it. Simon -- GPG public key available from http://phobos.fs.tum.de/pgp/Simon.Richter.asc Fingerprint: DC26 EB8D 1F35 4F44 2934 7583 DBB6 F98D 9198 3292 Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: 10 Dec 2001 15:14:47 -0500 From: Jason Baietto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [RFC] Multiprocessor Control Interfaces Hello All, I'm currently working on adding multiprocessor control interfaces to Linux. My current efforts can be found here: http://www.ccur.com/realtime/oss These are clean-room implementations of similar tools that have been available in our proprietary *nix for quite some time, and so the interfaces have a fair amount of mileage under their belts. Note that the scope is somewhat wider than just MP. There has been some discussion of "chaff" and other interfaces recently on this list, so in an effort to hopefully move towards a standard more quickly I've gotten permission from my employer to GPL the code I've written. I'm very interested in comments and feedback on any or all of this work. Here's the README file from the package: This package contains: run(1) A multiprocessor control command line tool. mpadvise(3) A multiprocessor control library interface. These services rely upon Robert Love's CPU Affinity patch (version 2.4.16-1 was used for testing) which is available here: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml/cpu-affinity/v2.4/ To build the code, simply unpack it and type "make". The code has been tested on Red Hat 7.1 and 7.2 systems, though it is still fairly new and almost certainly contains bugs. An attempt was made to abstract the "cpuset" representation of the current system in order to have binaries that in theory could work on systems with more than 32 cpus. For this to work, the run(1) command would need to be linked against a shared mpadvise(3) library (currently only a static library is made). This code is being released in the hopes that it will become the basis for the Linux multiprocessor control standard interfaces. I am very interested in getting feedback on this package, so please contact me via email or LKML if you have any. This source code is licensed under the GNU GPL Version 2. Copyright (C) 2001 Concurrent Computer Corporation -- Jason Baietto [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ccur.com/realtime/oss - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/