On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 5:54 PM, raz ben yehuda<raziebe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I have always been fascinated by the idea of controlling another cpu >> from the main CPU. >> >> Usually these cpus are custom, run proprietary software, and have no >> datasheet on their I/O interfaces. >> >> But, being able to turn an ordinary CPU into something like that seems >> to be very nice. >> >> For example, It might help with profiling. Think about a program that >> can run uninterrupted how much it wants. >> >> I might even be better, if the dedicated CPU would use a predefined >> reserved memory range (I wish there was a way to actually lock it to >> that range) >> >> On the other hand, I could see this as a jump platform for more >> proprietary code, something like that: we use linux in out server >> platform, but out "insert buzzword here" network stack pro+ can handle >> 100% more load that linux does, and it runs on a dedicated core.... >> >> In the other words, we might see 'firmwares' that take an entire cpu for >> their usage. > > This is exactly what offsched (sos) is. you got it. SOS was partly inspired by the notion of a GPU. So where are the patches? The URL in the original post returns 404... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
