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Re: pthread processor binding


Ahmed Abdelkhalek <oneshotawp@yahoo.com> writes:

> It may make sense especially on a heterogeneous MP
> platform, where you might want to bind certain threads
> that do expensive work on more capable processors, and
> other less demanding threads to cheaper cores.

eCos SMP support is fairly simple, it assumes equal CPUs and uniform
memory access. It certainly cannot cope with CPUs of varying
performance and capabilities. There is no way it could cope with
heterogeneous CPUs. Neither could it cope with NUMA systems.

If you want to run a single OS image on a strongly asymmetric system
then eCos is probably not the place to start. The additional
complexity needed, while acceptable in a large OS like Linux, is
excessive for a small OS like eCos.

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