Re: Re: Processor sets (pset) for linux kernel 2.5/2.6?

[Martin J. Bligh]

> Hmmm, AFAICS, sched_getaffinity() and sched_setaffinity() 
> allow the calling process to be bound to the nominated CPU(s), but that is not 
> the same as giving them exclusive access, is it? In other words, other 
> processes which have no particualr affinity needs can presumably still be 
> scheduled to run on the same processor. 
> 
> I am looking for something more akin to the patch I referred to...or did I miss 
> something in the effect of set_cpus_allowed()?

The NUMA scheduler work can trivially be converted into arbitrary
scheduler pools - they are not designed for dynamic modification
at the moment, but could be without too much effort I think.

Around 2.5.59 or so I posted a patch to rename them to pools, though
we had a few other things to sort out at the time. I might revive it
at some point - it's pretty simple.

M.