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Cc: Daniel Eischen <deischen@FreeBSD.org>,
	Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: Linux compatible setaffinity.
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Robert Watson wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Jeff Roberson wrote:
> 
>>> So perhaps this means a slightly more complex API, but not much more 
>>> complex. How about:
>>>
>>> int cpuaffinity_get(scope, id, length, mask)
>>> int cpuaffinity_getmax(scope, id, length, mask)
>>> int cpuaffinity_set(scope, id, length, mask)
>>> int cpuaffinity_setmax(scope, id, length, mask)
>>>

Are these features only for jail or something else which don't care CPU
L2 cache sharing between cores ? since program still can not figure out
L2 sharing information, no way to optimize its thread's cpu arrangement.

Regards,
David Xu