Hello,
Does anyone happen to know how the upcoming multi-core CPU will be handled
by the kernel? Does it see each core as a physical or logical CPU or ?
Vanderpool is a hardware support for OS virtualization (running multiple OS
"at the same time"), how does Linux kernel make use of this, particularly
which part of the kernel code?
I poke around the source (2.6.10) some but haven't figured both issues out
yet.
Many thanks!
Linda
* Linda Luu ([email protected]) wrote:
> Vanderpool is a hardware support for OS virtualization (running multiple OS
> "at the same time"), how does Linux kernel make use of this, particularly
> which part of the kernel code?
There's Xen support for upcoming VT, which will allow running unmodified
guest.
thanks,
-chris
On 4/15/05, Linda Luu <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Does anyone happen to know how the upcoming multi-core CPU will be handled
> by the kernel? Does it see each core as a physical or logical CPU or ?
Can't answer this, but I guess each core will be seen as a physical
CPU as they are real CPU cores, not just logical CPUs as with
multithreading.
> Vanderpool is a hardware support for OS virtualization (running multiple OS
> "at the same time"), how does Linux kernel make use of this, particularly
> which part of the kernel code?
At least, Xen will make great use of Vanderpool (VT) for
virtualization purpouses.