Linux threads

[jcordina]

Hello there,     I sure hope someone can help me out on this. I am currently working on a user level thread scheduler on the Linux Operating system. I am currently using Kernel 2.2.12. Well my plan is to be able to port this scheduler on to an SMP machine which will probably be a quad Pentium processor. My plans are to obtain a kernel thread from each processor and then bind user level threads to the kernel threads at leisure. My aim is to achieve a low latency allocation and scheduling without having to go through a kernel call every time scheduling occurs since it is amazingly expensive in computational resources. I have heard rumors that Linux SMP is not able to bind processes to specific processors. Can anyone enlighten me on this subject since it would greatly be of much help.   Thanks a lot   Joseph Cordina