> I have found that Bochs is an amazing way to learn about how the Linux
> kernel works, since you can watch it and tinker with it in the debugger
> without crashing the "real" machine. But now, I am trying to study how
> well Linux handles multiple processors, so I'm trying to extend bochs to
> handle two or more CPU models with shared memory space.
Unless Bochs exploits multiple CPUs so as to allow both virtual CPUs to run at
once, I think you won't learn a lot. Without this capability you won't get any
performance benefit, and you will get little if any serialisation problems.
Linux will perform much as n SMP kernel on a UP machine.
user-mode-linux may suit you better; I don't know how well it supports SMP,
but it DOES run code natively (and so faster), and it does run a (modified)
Linux kernel as a user program so you can using gdb without crashing the host.
See http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/ for more.
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