Re: 2.6 must-fix list, v2

Felipe Alfaro Solana (yo@felipe-alfaro.com)
14 May 2003 13:02:29 +0200


On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 00:49, Shaheed R. Haque wrote:
> Quoting Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>:
>
> > > - Add ability to restrict the the default CPU affinity mask so that
> > > sys_setaffinity() can be used to implement exclusive access to a CPU.
> >
> > Why is this useful?
>
> I forgot to add that the result is the rough equivalent of Digital UNIX's psets
> and Irix's sysmp for my prurposes at least.

And psets and fencing in Solaris too...

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