Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1946447AbWJTUB7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Oct 2006 16:01:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422831AbWJTUB7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Oct 2006 16:01:59 -0400 Received: from omx2-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.19]:37294 "EHLO omx2.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422820AbWJTUB6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Oct 2006 16:01:58 -0400 Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 13:01:41 -0700 From: Paul Jackson To: Nick Piggin Cc: akpm@osdl.org, mbligh@google.com, menage@google.com, Simon.Derr@bull.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dino@in.ibm.com, rohitseth@google.com, holt@sgi.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com, suresh.b.siddha@intel.com, clameter@sgi.com Subject: Re: [RFC] cpuset: add interface to isolated cpus Message-Id: <20061020130141.b5e986dd.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <453882AC.3070500@yahoo.com.au> References: <20061019092607.17547.68979.sendpatchset@sam.engr.sgi.com> <453750AA.1050803@yahoo.com.au> <20061019105515.080675fb.pj@sgi.com> <4537BEDA.8030005@yahoo.com.au> <20061019115652.562054ca.pj@sgi.com> <4537CC1E.60204@yahoo.com.au> <20061019203744.09b8c800.pj@sgi.com> <453882AC.3070500@yahoo.com.au> Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.3; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 697 Lines: 18 Nick wrote: > Or, another question, how does my patch hijack cpus_allowed? In > what way does it change the semantics of cpus_allowed? It limits load balancing for tasks in cpusets containing a superset of that cpusets cpus. There are always such cpusets - the top cpuset if no other. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.925.600.0401 - 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/