Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 13:03:39 -0700
From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] cpuset: add interface to isolated cpus
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Nick wrote:
> IOW, how could a user possibly notice or care that partitions are
> being used to implement a given policy? (apart from the fact that
> the balancing will work better).

Tasks in higher up cpusets (e.g., the top cpuset) wouldn't load balance
across these partitions.

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