Mark Zealey wrote:
>
> Around Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 01:04:22AM -0400, Drew Northup wrote the following:
> > I was wondering if maybe the SMP optimizations may be causing some of our troubles
>with plex86 on the 2.4.x kernels (compiled for SMP, of course...)? If so, what do we
>plan to do about this?
>
> Isn't this more of a kernel problem? maybe we should work with the kernel guys
> on hacking something up to fix this? (maybe a syscall binding a proces to a
> single cpu?)
It breaks for either SMP Linux or Linux on a single processor machine with
the LAPIC enabled, at least with 2.4.x.
I haven't even looked into fixing it, myself, but will certainly have a look
after integration of the new virtualization scheme is done. Anyone else
is welcome to look into it.
Added this to 'TODO', thanks.
-Kevin
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