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Subject: Re: latest linus-2.5 BK broken
From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 11:56, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> NO.
> 
> Rusty, people want to do "node-affine" stuff, which absolutely requires
> you to be able to give CPU "collections". Single CPU's need not apply.

I would also hate to have to make 32 system calls to get the affinity
mask I want.

If anything, I think the interface is not collective _enough_ - further
abstractions like psets seem to be in favor, not dropping down to a
one-CPU-and-task per-call thing.  Not that I am complaining, I am happy
with the interface...

	Robert Love

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