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Subject: Re: [PATCH] proc-based cpu affinity user interface
From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
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On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 03:33, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:

> It looks like you are limiting the number of CPUs to sizeof(long).
> Must you? Using "%lx" would be better in any case. Considering that
> you may outgrow the format, maybe this info doesn't belong in the
> /proc/*/stat files at all. For "ps" usage, a simple flag to indicate
> if the process is locked to a CPU would be OK. There are 3 cases
> of interest:

We already limit it... we use cpus_allowed and cpus_runnable which are
unsigned long.

	Robert Love

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