On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Pritam De wrote:
> I have a PC with P4 with HT enabled running Linux
> Kernel 2.6.9. I could able to spawn two kernel threads
> in two
> logical processors (LP). I would like to know whether
> I
> can able to run one kernel thread in one LP and user
> process in other LP.
Yes. Look at mm/vmscan.c#kswapd() to see how a kernel thread is setup to
only run on one processor. Look at kswapd_init() to see an easy way for
hints on how to setup one thread per-CPU on the system. A user process can
be bound to a CPU using sched_setaffinity().
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Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student Java Applications Developer
University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab
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