>>
>> 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.
>
> 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.
I think Andrea Arcangeli did this some time back (processor affinity patch).
Check the linux-kernel archives.
However, an important question to ask is: "why do you believe you need to
execute a process on a given processor of a multiprocessor system?"
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