Re: cpuset - question

From: Daniel J Blueman
Date: Wed Nov 02 2005 - 12:35:10 EST


I'm not sure of the true answer; it is likely that CPUSETS was
designed in the 2.4 timeframe and compatibility was preferred over the
clean sysfs interface.

I've CC'd the authors.

Dan

On 11/2/05, Randy.Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Daniel J Blueman wrote:
> >
> > Janos,
> >
> > You can see what valid memory nodes are available from the top-level
> > cpuset directory:
> >
> > # cat /dev/cpuset/mems
> > 0 1 2 3
> >
> > If you were to be running on a NUMA-capable system, you'd also want to
> > ensure page interleaving was disabled in the BIOS/pre-boot firmware
> > too.
>
> Just for info, why is this in /dev at all, instead of, say,
> /sys ??
>
> --
> ~Randy
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Daniel J Blueman
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