From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: rml@mvista.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, davem@redhat.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] 2.4.19-pre10-ac2: O(1) scheduler merge, -A3.
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 02:26:30 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020618022630.17a907b4.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0206170503380.2941-100000@e2>
On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 05:24:30 +0200 (CEST)
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> > > - sched_setaffinity() & sched_getaffinity() syscalls on x86.
> >
> > Do we want to introduce this into 2.4 now? I realize 2.4-ac is not 2.4
> > proper, but if there is a chance this interface could change...
>
> the setaffinity()/getaffinity() interface looks pretty robust, i dont
> expect any changes
There's one coming. In 2.5.soon, you'll need to handle the "CPU going away"
signal, otherwise your process will abort as someone downs a CPU.
The problem with backporting one and not the other, is that apps can't be
written correctly for 2.4 and 2.5 8(
Rusty.
--
there are those who do and those who hang on and you don't see too
many doers quoting their contemporaries. -- Larry McVoy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-17 16:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-13 19:21 [PATCH] 2.4-ac: sparc64 support for O(1) scheduler Robert Love
2002-06-14 4:25 ` David S. Miller
2002-06-14 17:32 ` Robert Love
2002-06-15 13:22 ` David S. Miller
2002-06-20 19:42 ` Alan Cox
2002-06-16 15:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-06-16 17:00 ` [patch] 2.4.19-pre10-ac2: O(1) scheduler merge, -A3 Ingo Molnar
2002-06-16 23:57 ` Robert Love
2002-06-17 0:13 ` J.A. Magallon
2002-06-17 4:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-06-17 0:15 ` Robert Love
2002-06-17 3:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-06-17 3:57 ` Robert Love
2002-06-17 4:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-06-17 4:02 ` Robert Love
2002-06-17 4:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-06-17 4:49 ` [patch] 2.5.22 current scheduler bits #1 Ingo Molnar
2002-06-17 3:24 ` [patch] 2.4.19-pre10-ac2: O(1) scheduler merge, -A3 Ingo Molnar
2002-06-17 3:35 ` Robert Love
2002-06-17 4:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-06-17 7:50 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-06-17 8:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-06-17 8:23 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-06-17 9:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-06-17 9:34 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-06-18 7:16 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-06-19 1:05 ` Matthew Dobson
2002-06-20 20:22 ` Andrew Theurer
2002-06-24 0:16 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-06-17 16:26 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2002-06-17 4:51 ` Toshiba PCToPIC97 PC Card freeze in 2.4.18 Stephen Satchell
2002-06-16 23:45 ` [PATCH] 2.4-ac: sparc64 support for O(1) scheduler Robert Love
2002-06-17 5:28 ` David S. Miller
2002-06-17 21:18 ` Robert Love
2002-06-14 22:00 ` Thomas Duffy
2002-06-15 13:35 ` David S. Miller
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