Re: patch to trim page table cache

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Sat, 18 Jul 1998 11:50:08 -0700 (PDT)


On Sat, 18 Jul 1998, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> Nothing is tied to a CPU.

Minor check: the "idle" task is a per-CPU thing, and will always run on
the same CPU.

Other than that processes can indeed migrate freely (we may allow fixing
them to one CPU as that's not very hard to do, but that has to be asked
for explicitly).

Linus

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