On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 04:39:47PM -0400, Chris Snook wrote: > Chris Friesen wrote: >> We currently use CKRM on an SMP machine, but the only way we can get away >> with it is because our main app is affined to one cpu and just about >> everything else is affined to the other. > > If you're not explicitly allocating resources, you're just low-latency, not > truly realtime. Realtime requires guaranteed resources, so messing with > affinities is a necessary evil.
You've mentioned this twice in this thread. If you're going to talk about this you should characterize this more specifically because resource allocation is a rather incomplete area in the Linux. Rebalancing is still an open research problem the last time I looked. Tong's previous trio patch is an attempt at resolving this using a generic grouping mechanism and some constructive discussion should come of it. bill - 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/
