Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 03 May 1998 11:54:56 +0200 | From | Simon Richter <> | Subject | Re: Asymmetric multiprocessing? |
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linker@nightshade.ml.org wrote:
> Perhaps the best way of accomplishing this is like a multicomputer. > > Each processor runs a seperate kernel, and they all talk via ultrafast, > over the bus, modified TCP/IP.
I've always wondered why the lo interface had room for 16M IP addresses... :-)
> In a shared (or semi shared) it would be tough.. You'd have a master > processor allocate chunks for the other chips.. This would only work if > they all had decent MMUs I guess... :)
Things are even worse -- there are machines out there that have their MMUs shared between two processors... :-) But I guess support for this will not really be added in the first place... :-)
CU Simon
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