Hello Nick, 

> >Does Linux tolerate hard CPU binding? By hard CPU binding, I mean 
> >that the application tells the scheduler "I want to run there", 
> >and the scheduler schedules the thread(s) "there" regardless if it 
> >makes sense or not ( The decision is left to the application). 
> 
> Yes, it does support hard CPU binding - sched_setaffinity

Yes, I believe that /sched_setaffinity()/ offers a practical solution to the
problem we are faced. 

But I am eager to try the RT-patchset of Ingo. 


> [snip interesting dialogue]
> 
> Thanks for your detailed comments, they were interesting.

... Glad to hear. You're welcome!  



Cheers,  
Loic. 

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