On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Comandante wrote:
> Suppose that I'm writing a piece of code taht uses the FPU, in a SMP
> system, will be the two units used in paralell if I have two threads
> using them?
yes - this is one of the advantages of 'kernel threads'.
> The interrupt for the FPU is XT-PIC ; If I managed to use both FPUs
> how will the kernel know what FPU of what cpu isued the int??
dont get confused by the FPU entry in /proc/interrupts - it's only used on
early 386 CPUs. Anything newer uses exception 16 for FPU exceptions.
-- mingo
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