From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <49949E48.4010106@domain.hid> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:10:16 +0100 From: Gilles Chanteperdrix MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <7ed3bc8b0902120904r800de72q97e694001600051e@domain.hid> <499480EE.3040403@domain.hid> <49948E51.9000509@domain.hid> In-Reply-To: <49948E51.9000509@domain.hid> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Xenomai-help] Known-to-work motherboards? List-Id: Help regarding installation and common use of Xenomai List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Jan Kiszka Cc: xenomai@xenomai.org, Stuart O Anderson Jan Kiszka wrote: > Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote: >> Stuart O Anderson wrote: >>> If there isn't a list online that I've missed, is anyone running >>> xenomai on a relatively recent machine with 8 or more cores without >>> problems? If so, can you provide hardware specs? >> Xenomai will have scalability problems when running on an 8 cores system >> (if you intend to run real-time tasks on each of the 8 cores). >> > > We are running Xenomai on up to 4x4 boxes, but only with 1 or 2 cores > used by RT tasks. I've some patch hanging around that restricts Xenomai > (specifically its host timer hook) to a CPU subset in order to mitigate > the scalability issues - guess I should finally get it in shape and post it. The host timer already runs on only one CPU. -- Gilles.