Re: Getting Started with Hurd-L4

[Sam Mason]

Espen Skoglund wrote:
>[Marcus Brinkmann]
>> You have to do this yourself, in your own scheduler implementation.
>> L4 only provides the mechanism to change the CPU a thread runs on,
>> and not which thread should migrate to which CPU at which time.
>
>Our groupe is pretty actively investigating MP systems (including NUMA
>and multi-core CPUs) and how to build kernels and systems on top of
>it.

I would've thought that L4 couldn't be involved in much of this
and it would just have to provide this information to the system
and leave it to do all the work of deciding which threads to
migrate where.

Cheers,
  Sam