To Pin or not to Pin on Symmetric Multiprocessor Systems

This is a nice interview questions as it helps to determine if the candidate is capable of discerning the tradeoffs in SMP system design. The question is pretty simple, consider a system where you have two cores 1 and 2 and two tasks e.g. timer tasks A and B. How would you design the scheduling in the system?

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Citation information:

G. Bhanage, "To Pin or not to Pin on Symmetric Multiprocessor Systems", Tech Report GDB2017-003, bhanage.com, January 2017.

Bibtex:

@misc{bhanage2017pin,
  title={To Pin or not to Pin on Symmetric Multiprocessor Systems},
  author={Bhanage, Gautam},
  journal={http://www.bhanage.com/p/publications.html},
  number={Tech Report GDB2017-003},
  year={2017}
}

Introduction to WiFi Packet Captures

If you are a beginner who is just starting to use WiFi with wireshark and want some sample captures to look at here are a few from the wireshark site:

Simple wireless join:

File: Network_Join_Nokia_Mobile.pcap Description: 802.11 capture of a new client joining the network, authenticating and activating WPA ciphering

File: wpa-Induction.pcap Description: 802.11 capture with WPA data encrypted using the password "Induction".

File: wpa-eap-tls.pcap.gz 

Takeaways and quotes from A brief history of time, a “timeless” classic by Stephen Hawking

Don't have time to read the entire book, then please feel free to browse through these few pages that I have put together. These are concepts, quotes and information on concepts collected  from across the web that are relevant to the information in this book.

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P.S> I am not a physicist so please take everything with a pinch of salt :)

Reference:
Quotes are mostly from goodreads.com
Concepts are snippets from wikipedia.com

Cite this:
G. Bhanage, "Takeaways and quotes from A brief history of  time, a “timeless” classic by Stephen Hawking", Published online at http://bhanage.com/  GDB2017-001, Jan, 2017