Re: impact of Athlon's slower front-side-bus (FSB)

joe briggs (jbriggs@briggsmedia.com)
Mon, 2 Jun 2003 14:36:24 -0400

> Yes. You would probably want to tie different cards/encoders to
> different processors and the IRQ to the same one. You can do this via
> /proc and with the -ac or most vendor trees (and 2.5) you can tie
> processes to CPUs with syscalls

Can I do this with the 2.4.19 kernel (debian)? The cards in question are quad
bt878 frame grabbers. How specifically can I tie a particular bt878 to a
particular processor on the dual athlon platform?

One last question, given the slow FSB and the fact that 2 uP's are groping for
the same memory space and that each bt878 is dma'ing its data to memory, is
the SMP still a better idea than uni-processor?

Thanks for all of the help!

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Joe Briggs
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