From owner-freebsd-smp Thu Dec 4 16:39:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA19434 for smp-outgoing; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 16:39:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp) Received: from axis.axisnet.net (root@axis.axisnet.net [206.54.226.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA19429 for ; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 16:39:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jtk@titania.net) Received: from dega.titania.net (monet.titania.net [206.54.226.103]) by axis.axisnet.net (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA14353 for ; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 18:39:54 -0600 Date: Thu, 4 Dec 97 18:28:53 Central Standard Time From: "Joseph T. Klein" Subject: "Sticky" Processes To: smp@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Chameleon ATX 6.0, Standards Based IntraNet Solutions, NetManage Inc. X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Is it possible to give a process an attribute that would tend to force a processor into dedicating itself to it under SMP? A recent paper given at SigComm97 has revived my interest in using FreeBSD as a router platform. Check out: http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm97/papers/p192.pdf It would be interesting to see how this can be implemented in an SMP environment. I essence holding the routing table lookup in cache on one processor during high demand. The implications of this paper are, to say the least, interesting. A hack of gated with these algorithms and SMP? -- From: Joseph T. Klein, Titania Corporation http://www.titania.net/ mailto: jtk@titania.net Sent: 18:28:54 CST/CDT 12/04/97 voice: +1 414 372 4565 FAX: +1 414 264 6038