On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 10:28:35PM -0500, Greg Lindahl wrote: > What you propose, locking the fpu owner to the current cpu, will not > result in a fair solution. Imagine a 2 cpu machine with 2 processes > using integer math and 1 using floating point... how much cpu time > will each process get? Imagine all the funky effects. Now add in a > MIPS design in which interrupts are not delivered uniformly to all the > cpus... I don't know if there are any or will ever be any, but... They already exist, SGI Origin. Ralf
