On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 08:57:17PM +0100, Stuart Herbert, GNQS Maintainer wrote:
> I've joined the Linux/SGI mailing list looking for (at first)
> information about a specific feature-set ... my apologies if I've come
> to the wrong place.
This is definately the right place.
> IRIX 5.x, and IRIX 6.0-6.3 provides support for 'processor sets'
> through the sysmp(2) system call, and the pset(1) binary. This
> particular feature-set is popular amongst users of Generic NQS, a
> batch processing system I maintain.
>
> It's so popular, in fact, that there's been a lot of interest amongst
> my users in adding this feature-set to Linux. It occurred to me that
> the Linux/SGI port *might* include adding this support to Linux.
>
> Is sysmp(2) and pset(1) on your TODO list?
We only support the uninteresting sysmp(2) operations MP_PGSIZE,
MP_NPROCS and MP_NAPROCS as part of the IRIX binary compatibility.
> If not, then I wrote a (crude - I'm not much of a kernel hacker) patch
> which implemented all the pset stuff for sysmp(2), and a basic pset(1)
> binary which may be of interest. The patch is against an old 2.0
> kernel, and needs a small fix to actually work (I don't actually have
> a SMP box of my own).
We don't yet support SMP - nobody has so far provided a SMP machine to
me plus the hardware documentation. However I think you might also
consult about sysmp(2) and pset(1) with the people from
linux-smp@vger.rutgers.edu, the stuff is definately of interest to the
users of Alpha, i386 and Sparc systems on which SMP is supported.
Linux/MIPS is so far not yet a very widespread OS, but if you nevertheless
wish to port your code to Linux/MIPS, then I as one of the core
developers would like to offer you my support. I'd also like to point
out that Linux/MIPS as far as technically possible is binary compatible
beyond the machines of just one manufacturer.
Ralf
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