Re: 2.6 must-fix list, v2

Shaheed R. Haque
2003-05-13T22:36:42Z

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.