Re: scheduling co-processors

[Bill Davidsen]

Sherif Fadel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a dual-core system on which I would like to treat one processor
> as a scheduling co-processor. I have already implemented some custom
> scheduling policies and tested them with SMP disabled, I would not like
> to see if it is possible to have the scheduling algorithm running on one
> core and the scheduled tasks running on another.
>
> I do not know if I can somehow use cpus_allowed to restrict the kernel
> to one core and the running tasks to another. Is this possible? If so,
> could you please inform me how one would go about this?
You can look at cpu affinity and see if it does some of what you want.

> In case you are wondering why I would need this, I am writing a bunch of
> high-overhead distributed scheduling algorithms and I want to mitigate
> their overhead in this way.
>
> Thanks.


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