[rtl] processor affinity?

["Bill Goolsby" <BILL@cellbio.emory.edu>]

I am trying to determine if RT Linux with SMP is appropriate for a 
project I am working on.  I have an Intel N440BX dual-Pentium II 
server board, which I understand is now supported by RT Linux and 
SMP.  However, I want to run two compute-intensive threads and I need 
to make sure that each runs on a separate processor.  The RTL docs 
say there are no calls to ensure processor affinity.

Once created, is there a way for a thread to determine which 
processor it is running on?  I am thinking that I could create a 
bunch of threads (or processes) until I get two on different CPUs, 
then kill the ones I don't need.  Would this work?  Are there better 
ways?

Thanks.



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