Re: What process is on which processor (SMP)

Alan Cox (alan@cymru.net)
Tue, 6 Aug 1996 18:27:12 +0100 (BST)


> Is it possible to see what processor is handling which processes with
> Linux SMP. The ideal thing would be to have another column in top which
> lists what processor a processes is running on, but I am wondering if
> their is any kernel support for this?

At any given schedule the process may move to a different CPU. We don't pick
a CPU and stick with it unless both CPU's are busy in which case we do try
to keep locality.

Alan