Running code on an isolated core

[Vladimir Murzin]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Vaibhav Jain <vjoss197 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am looking into running a program on one of the cores which is isolated
> (logically offline )
> from the rest of the cores. I have come to that the command
> echo 0 > /sys/device/system/cpu/<core num>/online
>
> will make a core logically offline,
> What I need to do now is to run a program on this offline core. Please
> suggest on how to proceed.
>
> Thanks!
> Vaibhav Jain
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Hi Vaibhav,

I think it's impossible to run out a process on unplugged CPU. May be
AMP[1] is what you need, but it's a bit different approach.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric_multiprocessing