Re: [PATCH] syscall interface for cpu affinity

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>]

Robert Love <rml@tech9.net> writes:

> On Sun, 2002-03-10 at 15:29, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>  
>> Please add the procinterface also!  I've found it today (for 2.4.18)
>> and it's much easier to use with existing programs.
>
> I agree and I really like the proc-interface.  There is something uber
> cool about:
>
> 	cat 1 > /proc/pid/affinity

I agree.

> I have a patch for 2.5.6 for proc-based affinity interface here:
>
> 	http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml/cpu-affinity/v2.5/cpu-affinity-proc-rml-2.5.6-1.patch
>
> I suspect, however, that despite both patches being small we really only
> want to pick and standardize on one.  The syscall interface has two main
> things going for it against a proc-based implementation: it is faster
> and /proc may not be mounted.  The masses have spoken on this issue.
>
> Note you can use the syscall interface with existing programs, too. 
> Just write a program to take in a pid and mask and call
> sched_set_affinity.

What I need at the moment is a wrapper - and you can do it two ways:

$ run_with_affinity 1 program arguments...
$ (cat 1 > /proc/self/affinity; program arguments...)

The second one is much easier coded ;-)

>> Please add it for all archs - this is not only interesting for x86,
>
> I'll send Linus the patch for other arches if/when he accepts this patch
> - I have no problem with that.

Thanks,
Andreas
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