On (2012-11-09 16:58 -0500), Pete Lumbis wrote: > I do not believe that the linux scheduler is run to completion, but to > be honest I'm not 100% certain. I know a big reason for IOS-XE was to
It certainly is not, I'm not proposing it is. I'm saying it is bit of a stretch to believe that IOSd does not have own legacy scheduler and memory management as pulling that switch would have been quite major rework. > be able to operate in multicore environments. From a high level you > have IOSd as a process with each traditional process (BGP, OSPF, IP > Input) as a thread within IOSd. Overall IOS-XE is Linux managing a few > processes: IOSd, FMan-RP, CMan-RP (and a few others) FMan deals with > adjacencies and CMan deals with modules/cards and IOSd all the > interesting stuff. Since Linux is the piece actually running the show > IOS-XE gets all the memory management and scheduling benefits that > linux has. So each IOSd process 'show proc cpu' are separate threads to linux? -- ++ytti
