On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Oliver Brandmueller wrote: > Hi all, > > With late ULE you can watch a process hopping between CPUs. This seems You can see that with the 4BSD scheduler too. It has always been a "feature" on the scheduler. I can see this on FreeBSD 3.5 too. > to the base functionality for CPU hot swapping. One would need (apart > from a Motherboard that's able to that ;-)) some control over CPUs now, > like disabling a physical CPU during runtime (which could also be done > automatically on certain filure onditions). sysctl already exposes some variabled to control CPUs on an SMP system. It is a pretty hard to detect a CPU failure in software, because the software detection will fail at the same time the CPU does. > Is there any work in progress in this direction? Would be a very neat > feature for high availability systems. > > - Oliver TomReceived on Fri Jan 02 2004 - 08:59:14 UTC
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