Re: latest linus-2.5 BK broken

From: Benjamin LaHaise (bcrl@redhat.com)
Date: Tue Jun 18 2002 - 14:29:49 EST


On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 04:51:31AM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> You could do a loop here, but the real problem is the broken userspace
> interface. Can you fix this so it takes a single CPU number please?
>
> ie.
> /* -1 = remove affinity */
> sys_sched_setaffinity(pid_t pid, int cpu);
>
> This will work everywhere, and doesn't require userspace to know the
> size of the cpu bitmask etc.

That doesn't work. Think of SMT CPU pairs (aka HyperThreading) or
quads that share caches.

                -ben

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