From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261334AbUL2LW5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Dec 2004 06:22:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261335AbUL2LW4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Dec 2004 06:22:56 -0500 Received: from danga.com ([66.150.15.140]:13473 "EHLO danga.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261334AbUL2LWz (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Dec 2004 06:22:55 -0500 Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 03:22:53 -0800 (PST) From: Brad Fitzpatrick X-X-Sender: bradfitz@danga.com To: Michael Tewner Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux SMT question In-Reply-To: <41D289A6.7050805@jct.ac.il> Message-ID: References: <41D289A6.7050805@jct.ac.il> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Michael, On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Michael Tewner wrote: > I'm sorry if this has been covered before. If it has, please direct me > on where to look. > > Over the year, our university started acquiring dual Xeon servers. I > havn't been able to find consistent information regarding how linux > deals with the SMT (HT?). Check out this article: http://lwn.net/Articles/80911/ lwn.net's a great source of both news and timely explanations of kernel changes underway. > Finally, is there a way to force an application to run an separate > physical CPU's? Perhaps a MOSIX-like /proc interface (where each PID has > a special file with preferences such as keep-local)? $ man 2 sched_setaffinity - Brad