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On Thursday 10 April 2003 13:42, Andrew R. Reiter wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Jeff Roberson wrote:
> :
> :Yes, I'm telling you, if you add anything make it specific to the
> :scheduler.  It doesn't not need to be in scheduler independant code. 
> : We just need a new system call for binding a kse to a cpu.  This will
> : be scheduler independant and then we can call a scheduler dependant
> : routine like sched_bind(kse, cpu);
>
> How could one retrieve the current affinity of a kse?  I sorta like the
> linux method of set and get affinity and using a bit mask for the CPUs
> a process can be bound to.

Does this scale well when the number of processors grows large?

I'm just looking forward to FreeBSD on Starfire and Sunfire systems... ;^)

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        Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?

Wes Peters                                               wes@softweyr.com