Linux compatible setaffinity.

[Brian McGinty]

On Dec 23, 2007 5:44 PM, David Xu <davidxu at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> Robert Watson wrote:
> > On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, David Xu wrote:
> >
> >> I don't say no to these interfaces, but there is a need to tell user
> >> which cpus are sharing cache, or memory distance is closest enough,
> >> and which cpus are servicing interrupts, e.g, network interrupt and
> >> disks etc, etc, otherwise, blindly setting cpu affinity mask only can
> >> shoot itself in the foot.
> >
> > While the Mac OS X API is pretty Mach-specific, it's worth taking a look
> > at their recently-announced affinity API:
> >
> > http://developer.apple.com/releasenotes/Performance/RN-AffinityAPI/index.html
> >
> >
> > Robert N M Watson
> > Computer Laboratory
> > University of Cambridge
> >
>
>
> I like the interfaces, it is more flexible.

I agree. May I as k what's being planned? It's Jeffs' call finally I think.

Brian.