Re: asynchronus multiprocessing

John Clemens (john@deater.net)
Wed, 19 Dec 2001 13:09:34 -0500 (EST)

I looked into this a little while ago... never got a patch working
100% correctly...there was some discussions about it on the SGI Linux
Scalability list (as far as i can tell, it was the -only- discussion on
the SGI list, as the IBM list started about the same time.. ahhh, orphaned
mailing lists..).. It was a quick-n-dirty hack, and only the beginnings of
one at that...

i put a quick page up about it at
http://www.deater.net/john/processorgroups.html

Conclusion: Could be done, not worth it for miniscule speed gains, could
be much more of a benefit on NUMA machines, but the linux scalable
scheduler's out there are probably a much better approach to doing the
same thing...

john.c

On 19 Dec 2001, Martin A. Brooks wrote:

> On Wed, 2001-12-19 at 15:40, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> > Has there been any talk of (or work on) AMP support in the kernel?
>
> I meant /asymmetric/ MP. Sorry.
>
>

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