Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:35:51 +0300
From: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>, Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
       Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, righi.andrea@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] relay: Fix race condition which occurs when reading
 across CPUs.
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On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:10:36 -0400
Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org> wrote:

> Do you get the same results when not using a buffered read to read
> /proc/PID/stat ? Also, since the internal proc handle might buffer the
> information, closing the file and re-opening it after the set affinity
> would not be a bad idea.
> 
> Mathieu

Tested your suggestions now, looks fine. 5 instances end up on CPU 1,
one on CPU 0, no errors printed by the application.


	Eduard
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