Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) development
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From: "Earle R. Nietzel" <nietzel@rhinobox.org>
To: "Robert M. Hyatt" <hyatt@cis.uab.edu>
Cc: Shreyas Kejariwal <skejariwal@perigee.com>,
	linux-smp <linux-smp@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: SMP questions
Date: 19 Jun 2003 23:58:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1056059923.4757.19.camel@home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0306191057030.5678-100000@crafty.cis.uab.edu>


> Why would you want to?  This is something the operating system should 
> handle correctly.
Agreed that the OS should be able to handle it the best it can. 

Though somtimes you have processes that are more important than others and you want to maintain a level of performance for that (application) process.

An example might be if other (applications) processes hog the cpu's, therby lowering the level of performace of the more important process.

This might be unacceptable which is why processor affinity is required.

These utilities are very valuable on scale up boxes versus scale out where problems like this are frequent.

-- 
Earle R. Nietzel <nietzel@rhinobox.org>


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-06-19 21:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-18 14:41 SMP questions Shreyas Kejariwal
2003-06-19 16:00 ` Robert M. Hyatt
2003-06-19 16:55   ` Shreyas Kejariwal
2003-06-19 17:18     ` Robert M. Hyatt
2003-06-19 21:09     ` Earle R. Nietzel
2003-06-19 20:58   ` Eckhard Rüggeberg
2003-06-19 21:20     ` Robert M. Hyatt
2003-06-19 21:58   ` Earle R. Nietzel [this message]
2003-06-20  0:45     ` Robert M. Hyatt
2003-06-20  7:20       ` Earle R. Nietzel

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