On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Drew Northup wrote:
> Great thought..., but once again Intel has broken it before you could even
> try. The main problem with the multiprocessor argument is not just the
> ring0 code (which is a real pain) it is also that SMP was designed with the
> intention that you never know what process is running on which processor,
> and thus the user level stuff doesn't know any "better" as to what it is
> really doing at the hardware level. OH well, maybe later.......;^)
Come on: kernel module. All you need is something similar to the kind of
thread scheduling that is common on NUMA architectures, or the binding you
can make between thread groups and CPUs in systems like Solaris. You can
even do something really cheesy like add a /proc entry which allows for
ioctls to control this sort of thing.
Phil
