On Apr 1, 2011, at 11:51 AM, [email protected] wrote: > I haven't looked at the code recently, but I believe that the RTAPI code > binds to the highest numbered CPU. > > The isolcpus parameter used to be a mask, but now it's a list (there are > things called "cpusets" now as well, which are way cool but unused by us). > You could isolate cores 1 and 3 with "isolcpus=1,3". > > All that isolcpus does is to tell the Linux scheduler to not schedule any > process on that CPU/core unless the process specifically requests to be > put there.
So, when I set isolcpus=1 on my dual core processor and run System Monitor, CPU1 is completely busy and nothing appears to be running on CPU2. This seems counter to "RTAPI code binding to the highest numbered CPU"... -Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
