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Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> wrote:
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>  3) you think that such a model can be provided sensibly from user space?

As you say, it's a matter of coordinated poking at cpus_allowed.  I'd be
interested to know why this all cannot be done by a userspace daemon/server
thing.
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