From: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@drdos.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>,
Ankit Jain <ankitjain1580@yahoo.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: processor affinity
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 10:56:51 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <415AE953.3070105@drdos.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1096408318.13983.47.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Alan Cox wrote:
>On Maw, 2004-09-28 at 17:02, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
>
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>>>>http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r=2&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ptxt&s1=merkey.INZZ.&OS=IN/merkey&RS=IN/merkey
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Wow, I never knew about that.
>>>
>>>But guess who wrote the affinity system calls? :)
>>>
>>>
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>>I wrote them first, and coined the term.
>>
>>
>
>Cute but GCOS3 had affinity syscalls for batch processing in the 1970's
>and I don't believe it was original even then.
>
>
Using them for Intel Cache affinity was new at the time. Intel SMP
hardware was not readily available at the time and was in
its infancy in 1993 when this was developed. This implementation (like
Linux) was specific to IA32 architecture systems.
Jeff
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-29 17:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-28 12:25 processor affinity Ankit Jain
2004-09-28 13:39 ` Toon van der Pas
2004-09-28 13:47 ` Jon Masters
2004-09-28 13:55 ` Neil Horman
2004-09-28 14:04 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-09-28 15:58 ` Robert Love
2004-09-28 16:02 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-09-28 21:51 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-29 16:56 ` Jeff V. Merkey [this message]
2004-09-29 17:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-09-29 19:24 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-09-29 20:08 ` Jon Masters
2004-09-29 19:43 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-09-29 20:28 ` Jon Masters
2004-09-29 20:03 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-09-30 2:39 ` Nick Piggin
[not found] ` <20040930124708.GA2520@galt.devicelogics.com>
2004-10-01 3:09 ` Nick Piggin
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