suggestion: processor sets and bigphysarea for 2.5/2.6

From: Frederick Barnes (frmb2@ukc.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Jun 05 2000 - 10:17:23 EST

Feel free to flame me for these, but I think they'd be quite
useful:

Firstly, Tim Hockin's implementation of sysmp() to manage
multiple processors from applications. There are several good
uses for this.. The pset-utils collection which comes with it
allows for a fairly tidy set-up of multiprocessor boxes (such as
turning CPUs on/off, reserving processors, etc.).
http://isunix.it.ilstu.edu/~thockin/pset/
http://nuked.xylene.com/linux.html

Secondly, the bigphysarea thing which has been drifting around.
This is good for a number of things (frame-grabbers, such stuff),
and needed to get predictable cache behaviour from user-space.

Cheers,
  Fred 

-- 
Fred Barnes, PhD research student, UKC.  http://nuked.xylene.com/
frmb2@ukc.ac.uk         http://www.cs.ukc.ac.uk/people/rpg/frmb2/

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