Re: [PATCH] Binding processes to selected CPUs

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Mon, 4 Oct 1999 13:00:38 +0200 (CEST)


On Mon, 4 Oct 1999 avik@altavista.net wrote:

>Others may need it if they have symmetric per-cpu threads and they wish
>to maximize throughput (possibly at the expense of latency). By binding

My only point is that I think my SMP scheduler can automagically optimize
the throughput better than an hardwired binding.

> Since the machine is doing no useful work other than compiling the
>kernel, I doubt I'd notice the difference. But I will take a look.

You'll notice the difference if you compile the kenrel with lots of
parallel gcc like mine to do do readahead of the gcc files and to take
busy the two cpus all the time in userspace.

Andrea

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