Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265875AbTF3Unz (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jun 2003 16:43:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265884AbTF3Unz (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jun 2003 16:43:55 -0400 Received: from pc2-cwma1-4-cust86.swan.cable.ntl.com ([213.105.254.86]:30096 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265875AbTF3Unz (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jun 2003 16:43:55 -0400 Subject: Re: delegating to a cpu From: Alan Cox To: Raghava Raju Cc: arjanv@redhat.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20030630200949.96698.qmail@web20003.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030630200949.96698.qmail@web20003.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1057006524.17589.35.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 30 Jun 2003 21:55:25 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 524 Lines: 11 Unless your other work is really expensive its doubtful another CPU will help you. If it is then probably you want to have threads that you pin to each CPU (with the cpu affinity calls) and wake. You do want to work hard to keep the same data being needed on both CPUs however - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/