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From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: sched_setaffinity usability -- other issue
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 12:47:30 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4059E0B2.4030601@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 40595842.5070708@redhat.com

I have a different issue with setting cpu affinity.  Has anyone 
considered a "soft" affinity?

I'm thinking of the case where I want to run processes on separate cpus 
for performance reasons, but in the case that one cpu becomes 
unavailable (physically removed, hardware fault, etc.) I would like to 
move those processes back to working cpus (except for maybe the one that 
was actually running and therefore might be corrupted).  In this case a 
reduced performance might be preferable to an unplanned failover to 
backup hardware.

Has this scenario been considered, or will cpu affinity be a "hard" setting.

Chris


      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-03-18 17:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-18  8:05 sched_setaffinity usability Ulrich Drepper
2004-03-18  8:12 ` Tim Hockin
2004-03-18  8:22   ` Ulrich Drepper
2004-03-18  8:47     ` Ulrich Drepper
2004-03-18  9:45 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-18 10:10   ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-18 11:29 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-03-18 12:07   ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-03-18 12:31     ` Ingo Molnar
2004-03-19  8:05       ` Ulrich Drepper
2004-03-18 15:55     ` Linus Torvalds
2004-03-18 18:24       ` Ingo Molnar
2004-03-18 18:33         ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-18 18:39           ` Ingo Molnar
2004-03-18 18:55             ` Ingo Molnar
2004-03-18 20:01             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-18 20:28               ` Ingo Molnar
2004-03-18 20:49         ` David Lang
2004-03-18 20:57           ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-03-18 21:06           ` Ingo Molnar
2004-03-18 21:07         ` Davide Libenzi
2004-03-18 21:46           ` Ingo Molnar
2004-03-19  1:37             ` Davide Libenzi
2004-03-19  9:02         ` Helge Hafting
2004-03-21  9:51           ` Ingo Molnar
2004-03-19  0:00       ` Paul Jackson
2004-03-18 17:47 ` Chris Friesen [this message]

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