Re: [PATCH] Binding processes to selected CPUs

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Sun, 3 Oct 1999 22:41:00 +0200 (CEST)


On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Avi Kivity wrote:

>This patch, against 2.3.18ac8, allows a process to specify which CPUs it
>may execute on. It provides functionality similar to NT's ``thread
>affinity''.

Could you explain me why you need this feature? Maybe because you want
better performances? If so really please run a fixed SMP scheduler:

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/andrea/kernel-patches/my-2.2.13pre14/SMP-scheduler-2.2.11-E

Please check if you can get better performances by binding your process to
a fixed CPU than with my SMP scheduler heuristics.

Andrea

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