From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758028AbZBTN7p (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:59:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751247AbZBTN7f (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:59:35 -0500 Received: from proxy2.bredband.net ([195.54.101.72]:40187 "EHLO proxy2.bredband.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754145AbZBTN7f (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:59:35 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ap4MAANGnknVcsfHPGdsb2JhbAAIiRqLKgEBAQE1Ab81hA8G Message-ID: <499EB742.4050208@sundmangroup.com> Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:59:30 +0100 From: Matias User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: SMP Kernel Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, When an SMP enabled kernel is booted on a Dual Core x86 machine ( Core 0-1 ) I guess the Kernel is decompressed and started on core 0. At some point in time the kernel becomes SMP aware and can then distribute threads on Cores 0 and 1. Now, does the non-threaded part of the kernel with the scheduler continue to run solely on Core 0? Cheers // Matias