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Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 23:37:58 -1000 (HST)
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Subject: Re: cpuset and affinity implementation
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On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Daniel Eischen wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Jeff Roberson wrote:
>
>> 
>> On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Daniel Eischen wrote:
>> 
>>> On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Jeff Roberson wrote:
>>> 
>>>> See above discussion.  I'm not sure what you mean by 'default' cpuset 
>>>> here.
>>> 
>>> I imagine the 'default' cpuset as the system's default cpuset,
>>> in lieu of any administratively created cpusets and bindings
>>> for the process (inherited or explicit).
>> 
>> My opinion is that if we decide that it's important to assign numbered sets 
>> to tids we need then to allow cpuset_getid to return multiple ids for 
>> WHICH_PID.
>
> Maybe there shouldn't be WHICH_PID.  Perhaps it should be called
> WHICH_ALLTIDS.  Then it might appear more expected if
> cpuset_getid(WHICH_ALLTIDS, ...) returned multiple cpusets.
> I realize this is just playing with words, and I do prefer
> WHICH_PID :-)

Are there any objections to commiting this functionality in its current 
form?

I think there is the possibility for further debate and refinement but I 
believe the code is stable and simple enough to hit the tree for people to 
start using it.

Thanks,
Jeff


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