Athlon MP vs Athlon XP

Mark Hahn hahn at physics.mcmaster.ca
Thu Nov 8 13:10:17 PST 2001


> I have a innocent question.... Does the kernel have processor affinity
> built in to it yet?

yes, it has for years (even 2.2).  in the mainline kernel,
the affinity is just "be reluctant to move processes",
but there's a patch (pset) if you really think you can 
do better manually.




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