Re: [Lse-tech] [PATCH] cpusets - big numa cpu and memory placement

Paul Jackson
2004-10-04T01:58:41Z

Tim wrote:
> 7 years ago, before cpus_allowed was dreamed up, I proposed a pset patch

One more thing ... the original message from Simon and Sylvain that I
first saw a year ago announcing their cpuset work, which is the basis
for the current cpuset patch in Andrew's tree, began with the lines:

> From: Simon Derr <Simon.Derr@bull.net>
> Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 17:59:01 +0200 (DFT)
> To: lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
> cc: Sylvain Jeaugey <sylvain.jeaugey@bull.net>
>
> We have developped a new feature in the Linux kernel, controlling CPU
> placements, which are useful on large SMP machines, especially NUMA ones.
> We call it CPUSETS, and we would highly appreciate to know about anyone
> who would be interested in such a feature. This has been somewhat inspired
> by the pset or cpumemset patches existing for Linux 2.4.

So I guess Tim, you (pset) and I (cpumemset) can both claim to
have developed anticedents of this current cpuset proposal.

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