Re: 2.6 must-fix list, v2

Shaheed R. Haque (srhaque@iee.org)
Tue, 13 May 2003 23:49:16 +0100


Quoting Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>:

> > - Add ability to restrict the the default CPU affinity mask so that
> > sys_setaffinity() can be used to implement exclusive access to a CPU.
>
> Why is this useful?

I forgot to add that the result is the rough equivalent of Digital UNIX's psets
and Irix's sysmp for my prurposes at least.

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