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15 years ago

SMP support in the Linux System with Nios2

Hello all! I'm studying a multicore Nios2 system for my thesis. After trying with several applications to understand the function of mutex and mailbox, I decided to use also an operative sys...
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The operating system will not know about the existence of the other CPU. Can you explain a bit what you are trying to do?

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Hi!

The idea is to verify if there are computational improvements using a multicore system instead of a single core. At this moment the software that I would to transfer on the fpga is running on a pc under linux. The reason of the multicore system is because the load that this software treats is variable, so I would to build an application that is able to understand the data load and that it's able to divide the computational calculation on several softcore cpus (maybe using the MPI library).

Antonio