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Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 15:03:57 +0100 (CET)
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: O(1) J9 scheduler: set_cpus_allowed
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On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Erich Focht wrote:

> Do I understand correctly that there is no clean way right now to
> change cpus_allowed of a task (except for current)? In the old
> scheduler it was enough to set cpus_allowed and need_resched=1...

well, there is a way, by fixing the current mechanizm. But since nothing
uses it currently it wont get much testing. I only pointed out that the
patch does not solve some of the races.

	Ingo

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