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Cc: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>, Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>,
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Subject: Re: cpuset and affinity implementation
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On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Jeff Roberson wrote:

>
> On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Daniel Eischen wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Jeff Roberson wrote:
>> 
>>> See above discussion.  I'm not sure what you mean by 'default' cpuset 
>>> here.
>> 
>> I imagine the 'default' cpuset as the system's default cpuset,
>> in lieu of any administratively created cpusets and bindings
>> for the process (inherited or explicit).
>
> My opinion is that if we decide that it's important to assign numbered sets 
> to tids we need then to allow cpuset_getid to return multiple ids for 
> WHICH_PID.

Maybe there shouldn't be WHICH_PID.  Perhaps it should be called
WHICH_ALLTIDS.  Then it might appear more expected if
cpuset_getid(WHICH_ALLTIDS, ...) returned multiple cpusets.
I realize this is just playing with words, and I do prefer
WHICH_PID :-)

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DE