Re: SMP: bind process to cpu

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@caldera.de>]

	[Nick, I've added you to the Cc list so you can look at
	 it for future versions of your patch]


On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 03:13:45PM +0100, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> You must also update wake_process_synchroneous(), otherwise you can get
> lost wakeups with pipes.
> 
> Something like
> 
> >         if (!(p->cpus_allowed & (1 << smp_processor_id()))
> >                 reschedule_idle(p);
> 
> must be added after add_to_runqueue().

Ok.

> Ingo Molnar did some testing with tux2, and under high load wakeups were
> lost without such a patch.

(s/tux2/tux/ I suppose)

Yepp - but tux is again not userspace...

	Christoph

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