Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Mar 1999 09:46:36 +1200 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: CPU Management for Linux? |
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On Mon, Mar 22, 1999 at 01:14:21PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> Also memory, and everything else.
so how do you hot-remove memory? locked pages don't alway go away so easily...
> Adding and removing CPU's from a scheduler point of view isnt too > horrific. You can force a CPU to not be running a task (eg send it > an inter processor interrupt). When you add a CPU you need to clone > it an idle thread and a stack.
the above applies here -- if we tie a process to a specific processor or set of processors (there are patches which implement and IRIX compatible API here), how do we remove the processor?
-cw
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