Re: [SS20] Mixing two CPUs

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From: Robin KAY
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 23:45

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Scott Howard wrote:

> Solaris 8 and 9 have full support for scheduling onto different speed
> CPUs, although exactly how "intelligently" they do it is debatable,
> but it does try to be smart about it (being more intelligent needs more
> clock cycles, so it's a compromise)
>
> Newer version of 9 even include features to allow things like running a
> process "near" to it's memory to improve performance - although this is
> only an issue on the ccNUMA machines.
>
> Of course, I'd be fairly certain that none of this is done on SS20... :)

Why not? I don't see why such a feature would require processor specific 
code. If Solaris can see a difference in the processor speeds then it 
can schedule appropriately.

-- 
Wishing you good fortune,
--Robin Kay-- (komadori)

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