Re: Linux SMT question

[Brad Fitzpatrick]

Michael,

On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Michael Tewner wrote:

> I'm sorry if this has been covered before. If it has, please direct me
> on where to look.
>
> Over the year, our university started acquiring dual Xeon servers. I
> havn't been able to find consistent information regarding how linux
> deals with the SMT (HT?).

Check out this article:
http://lwn.net/Articles/80911/

lwn.net's a great source of both news and timely explanations of kernel
changes underway.

> Finally, is there a way to force an application to run an separate
> physical CPU's? Perhaps a MOSIX-like /proc interface (where each PID has
> a special file with preferences such as keep-local)?

$ man 2 sched_setaffinity

- Brad
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