Rovert Love wrote:
> No, the current scheduler (HT or stock 2.5) does not do
> this.
>
> Your theories are correct. It would be interesting to try
> this and see.
>
> It is nontrivial to do the ->mm checks in the scheduler though -
> certainly they cannot be done easily (if at all) in constant-time
> (i.e., it won't be O(1)).
Is the scheduler even the right place to do that?
I was thinking maybe the task_struct could use a cpus_desired
field -- then other parts of the system could give the scheduler hints
about which CPU to schedule a task on.
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