From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Oct 7 21:55: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A326C37B401 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 21:55:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rootlabs.com (root.org [67.118.192.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3CDBC43E77 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 21:55:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@rootlabs.com) Received: (qmail 9336 invoked by uid 1000); 8 Oct 2002 04:55:03 -0000 Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 21:55:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Nate Lawson To: Terry Lambert Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Running independent kernel instances on dual-Xeon/E7500 system In-Reply-To: <3DA1F91F.F707826E@mindspring.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > LinuxRT deals with this by having a hard RT executive, that runs > the Linux kernel as one of its tasks, and assigns resources. Doing > something similar on a two processor box in FreeBSD, without needing > the RT executive because you have an extra CPU, is not that much of > an intuitive leap, I think. > > -- Terry I believe you mean RTLinux and I agree that this is a great approach. -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message