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Subject: Re: Scheduling and idle loops.. (Was Re: cvs commit: sys/kern . . ) 
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From: David Greenman <dg@Root.COM>
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Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 07:24:07 -0700
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>Why not use a byte in struct proc for the cpuid of the processor which
>most recently ran the process.  If there is a choice of highest-priority
>processes, each cpu could choose a process which it has run before,
>otherwise just pick the highest priority process as normal.

   Right, if the CPU that it ran on last isn't available, but another one is,
you don't want to *not* run it just because of the processor affinity.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project