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Subject: Re: [PATCH] proc-based cpu affinity user interface
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Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 10:10:34 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: rml@tech9.net (Robert Love), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (linux-kernel)
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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> fundamental limitation of your approach, and *if* we want to export the
> cpus_allowed affinity to user-space (which is up to discussion), then the
> right way (TM) to do it is via a syscall.

HP and others have already implemented chunks of this stuff via syscall
interfaces. There is a complete pset api.

Alan
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