"Nicholas M. Kirsch" wrote:
> Maybe one of you kernel gurus can answer a simple question for me.
>
> I'm curious if there is a way to instruct the kernel to execute a
> particular process only on a particular processor in a multi-processor
> system.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Nicholas Kirsch <nkirsch@insynq.com>
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Nicholas,
Nope, there is no processor affinity in linux, hence you can't bind a
process to a specific CPU. However, the scheduler does give a goodness boost
to a process if it can run on the same cpu on which it ran last.
-Jonathan Case Nicklin
http://www.missionciticallinux.com
ps. there might a patch floating around to do this though.
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