From baae6f425182a30bad2c148c2636a331f6c83b6f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: gferg <> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 14:36:02 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] updated --- LDP/howto/linuxdoc/SMP-HOWTO.sgml | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/SMP-HOWTO.sgml b/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/SMP-HOWTO.sgml index 4b5841ef..952e369e 100644 --- a/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/SMP-HOWTO.sgml +++ b/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/SMP-HOWTO.sgml @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
+Also have a look at this article by Bryant, Hartner, Qi and
+Venkitachalam that compares 2.2 and 2.3/2.4 UP and SMP kernels :
+And
+The CPU hog is running on one CPU. Then xosview wakes up
+(on the other CPU) and starts sending commands to X, which
+wakes up as well.
+
+Since both X and xosview have a much higher priority than
+the CPU hog, xosview will run on one CPU and X on the other.
+
+Then xosview stops running and we have an idle CPU --> Linux
+moves the CPU hog over to the newly idle CPU (X is still
+running on the CPU our hog was running on just before).
+
@@ -949,13 +979,13 @@ page (only SMP systems):
+The answer is pretty simple. Basically there are 3
+processes involved:
+
+