On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 12:26:39PM -0700, Guy McArthur wrote:
> I've heard that, under Linux SMP, a process is bound to a single CPU
> (whichever the OS chooses). Is this true?
No.  The OS schedules it as it pleases, although it tries to keep it on a
single CPU for cache coherency.  Rasterman started a bogus rumor a few
months ago that Linux won't schedule threads across multiple CPUs (he didn't
do his homework), that might have been what you're thinking about.

-- 

+------- ---  -- --  -
|My opinions are those of snurgle.org, not Oracle /   [EMAIL PROTECTED]|
!http://www.snurgle.org/~griffon/                / [EMAIL PROTECTED]|
                                                    -  -- --  --- -------+
--
=-          To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the       -=
=-                body of "unsubscribe linux-abit".                 -=

Reply via email to