From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757997AbZBTOZh (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:25:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751178AbZBTOZ1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:25:27 -0500 Received: from svb-lan-93.maglan.ru ([62.64.8.93]:40443 "EHLO zimbra.svb.sbrf.ru" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751146AbZBTOZ0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:25:26 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 405 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:25:25 EST X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -3.368 Message-ID: <499EBAC6.60804@sbmag.ru> Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 01:14:30 +1100 From: zaharov User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090112) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matias CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: SMP Kernel References: <499EB742.4050208@sundmangroup.com> In-Reply-To: <499EB742.4050208@sundmangroup.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Matias wrote: > 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 > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > Kernel may run on any core . When kernel end bootstrap and run init he execute hlt op. After all live in kernel interrupt driven.