Hotplug CPU and setaffinity?

["Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <linux@treblig.org>]

Hi,
  I got to wondering how Hotplug CPU and sched_setaffinity interact;
if I have a process that has its affinity set to one CPU and some
nasty person comes along and unplugs it what happens to that process-
does it get scheduled onto another cpu, just not get any time or
die ?

In particular I was thinking of the cases where a thread has a
 functional reason for remaining on one particular CPU (e.g. if you
had calibrated for some feature of that CPU say its time stamp
counter skew/speed). Another case would be a set of threads which
had set their affinity to the same CPU and then made memory
consistency or locking assumptions that wouldn't be valid
if they got rescheduled onto different CPUs.

Dave

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