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Shailabh wrote:
> just pick some tasks and shut their data output out 

I missed this on first read.  Shutting down per-task (if it was a
property inherited on fork, and if it affectively eliminated the impact
on such tasks) would be equivalent to per CPU, for the configurations I
care about.

And you're right - per-task makes more sense than per-cpu.

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