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    SubjectRe: CPU affinity
    Benedict Bridgewater wrote:
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    > I need deterministic performance. I can control things on a single processor
    > by using SCHED_FIFO, but want to carry this level of control over to SMP.
    >
    > I'm processing video (bttv - DMA) and 8KHz sound data, so interrupts arn't
    > really an issue. But I am doing *heavy* processing, and my application
    > requires to be as time sensitive as possible, so I really can't afford to have
    > the scheduler 2nd guessing me when I move to SMP.
    >
    > Ben
    >

    I am also doing video processing. And I have Xeons with 2Mb of cache. The entire
    accumulated image result can/will live in the L2 cache. If I change cpu's,
    don't I loose the benefit of having the large (and expensive) L2 cache?

    don
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