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Date:   Wed, 9 Feb 2022 18:20:18 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched/fair: Consider cpu affinity when allowing NUMA
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On Wed, Feb 09, 2022 at 03:14:32PM +0000, Nayak, K Prateek wrote:
> [AMD Official Use Only]

I think you need to invest in a new mail setup.

> > Where does this affinity come from?
> 
> The affinity comes from limiting the process to a certain subset of
> available cpus by modifying the cpus_ptr member of task_struck
> via taskset or numactl.

That's obviously not an answer. Why is that done?