Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268739AbUI2RcI (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:32:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268706AbUI2Rbs (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:31:48 -0400 Received: from c7ns3.center7.com ([216.250.142.14]:34540 "EHLO smtp.slc03.viawest.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268739AbUI2RbD (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:31:03 -0400 Message-ID: <415AE953.3070105@drdos.com> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 10:56:51 -0600 From: "Jeff V. Merkey" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox Cc: Robert Love , Ankit Jain , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: processor affinity References: <20040928122517.9741.qmail@web52907.mail.yahoo.com> <41596F7F.1000905@drdos.com> <1096387088.4911.4.camel@betsy.boston.ximian.com> <41598B23.50702@drdos.com> <1096408318.13983.47.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1096408318.13983.47.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1322 Lines: 46 Alan Cox wrote: >On Maw, 2004-09-28 at 17:02, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > >>>>http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r=2&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ptxt&s1=merkey.INZZ.&OS=IN/merkey&RS=IN/merkey >>>> >>>> >>>Wow, I never knew about that. >>> >>>But guess who wrote the affinity system calls? :) >>> >>> > > > >>I wrote them first, and coined the term. >> >> > >Cute but GCOS3 had affinity syscalls for batch processing in the 1970's >and I don't believe it was original even then. > > Using them for Intel Cache affinity was new at the time. Intel SMP hardware was not readily available at the time and was in its infancy in 1993 when this was developed. This implementation (like Linux) was specific to IA32 architecture systems. Jeff >- >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/ > > > - 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/