Re: CPU affinity

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 14 Apr 1999 22:41:30 +0100 (BST)

> Surely you keep it `glued' for as long as reasonably possible? Why
> would you move it otherwise? (I can see in some cases it means some
> CPUs would get hotter than others, but not much...)

Define "reasonably possible" - in C with no knowledge of the tasks future
behaviour or other tasks future behaviour.

All of a sudden life gets harder

Suppose you have a 2 CPU box running 4 tasks and both tasks on CPU 0 sleep
do you move a task over or idle a CPU ...

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