Re: Binding a process to a specifc processor.

From: Kasper Dupont (kasperd_at_daimi.au.dk)
Date: 10/29/03 

Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 20:32:31 +0100

Trevor Hemsley wrote:
>
> On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 17:44:40 UTC in comp.os.linux.development.system,
> brian@doubledimension.com (Brian D. McGrew) wrote:
>
> > I need to be able to
> > assign these programs to a specific processor. Reason being, when
> > these programs are running, they pass messages back and forth and on a
> > dual processor system, our messages are getting clobbered. Of course,
> > on a single processor system, life is good.
>
> Sounds much more like you have a race condition in your code that
> fires when you run on multiple CPUs.

Which probably means it could also happen on a single CPU system.
The code just fails more frequently on SMP systems. 

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