Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263447AbTEMWgm (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2003 18:36:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263452AbTEMWgm (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2003 18:36:42 -0400 Received: from nmail1.systems.pipex.net ([62.241.160.130]:36805 "EHLO nmail1.systems.pipex.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263447AbTEMWgl (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2003 18:36:41 -0400 To: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: 2.6 must-fix list, v2 Message-ID: <1052866156.3ec1766c0b7b3@netmail.pipex.net> Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 23:49:16 +0100 From: "Shaheed R. Haque" Cc: "Shaheed R. Haque" , References: <1050146434.3e97f68300fff@netmail.pipex.net> <1050177383.3e986f67b7f68@netmail.pipex.net> <1050177751.2291.468.camel@localhost> <1050222609.3e992011e4f54@netmail.pipex.net> <1050244136.733.3.camel@localhost> <1052826556.3ec0dbbc1d993@netmail.pipex.net> <20030513130257.78ab1a2e.akpm@digeo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030513130257.78ab1a2e.akpm@digeo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT User-Agent: PIPEX NetMail 2.2.0-pre13 X-PIPEX-username: aozw65%dsl.pipex.com X-Originating-IP: 81.86.202.62 X-Usage: Use of PIPEX NetMail is subject to the PIPEX Terms and Conditions of use Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 586 Lines: 17 Quoting Andrew Morton : > > - Add ability to restrict the the default CPU affinity mask so that > > sys_setaffinity() can be used to implement exclusive access to a CPU. > > Why is this useful? I forgot to add that the result is the rough equivalent of Digital UNIX's psets and Irix's sysmp for my prurposes at least. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/