Official Flamer/Cabal NON-Leader wrote:
>On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 12:10:17PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
>
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>>>In a box with 2 CPUs, I am using RedHat kernel 2.4.7.
>>>1) Is it possible to enable/disable, by software means, a specific CPU
>>>(cpu 0 | cpu 1) ?
>>>
>>>2) While both CPUs are enabled, can we enforce a program to run ONLY
>>>on a specific CPU ?
>>>
>
>As far as I know, 1 is NO.
>
>The short answer to 2 is also no. The slighty longer one is that, to the
>best of my knowledge, CPU affinity is not in the kernel but I remember
>Jseeing references to building it, somewhere.
>
>It should be possible to bolt something very crude onto the current
>scheduler, but it is not a trivial effort to do it properly...
>
>>You can do it on sparc......
>>
>
>A. Not under Linux
>B. Not under Solaris, either, does this _disable_ the other CPU's
>C. Still no processor affinity
>
Please replace "sparc" with "solaris" on my last post to this thread.
Shachar
P.S.
phew - to be flamed by Marc, and still have all my teeth in my mouth
after reading it aloud.
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