Threads Anyone?! Was: Grumblings..blah

[Steve Jardine]

Several days ago I downloaded and compiled the .25 kernel. In doing so, I was unable to get the stinking NVidia driver to link without failure. I ended up having to make a change to the Makefile (per the NVidia blogs) and hand compile it. I was mentioning what I was told by the folks from NVidia.

Well, maybe things changed since then, I am using a different chipset/driver, local gravitational aberration, extraneous alpha particles - or simply I had my head up my arse.. :-) 

I have been working with forks going into threads writing to mutually exclusive hardware.. Therefore, I am truly bent today..

Anyone for parallel programming?

Speaking of that - does anyone have any experience with forcing threads/forks to use separate cores/processors? All my stuff is written in C. I have 8 cores to play with (4 processors). I need to have the ability to have 32 pseudo simultaneous video streams coming into this monster.   I would like to spread the load. Ideas??

Steve

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:33:41 -0700
"Lonni J Friedman" <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Steve Jardine <sjardine at acm.org> wrote:
> >  BTW, you need to use the intel driver if they have it. If not, perhaps you have to hand compile it. I had to do that so the optimised AMD compiler I have would make a correct executable.
> 
> If you're referring to the nvidia driver, then you're mistaken.
> 
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