Re: [ckrm-tech] [RFC] [PATCH 0/3] Add group fairness to CFS

[Paul Menage]

On 5/28/07, Peter Williams <pwil3058@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In any case, there's no point having cpu affinity if it's going to be
> ignored.  Maybe you could have two levels of affinity: 1. if set by a
> root it must be obeyed; and 2. if set by an ordinary user it can be
> overridden if the best interests of the system dictate.  BUT I think
> that would be a bad idea.

Something like that already exists (at least for controlling the
bounding set of allowed cpus) via cpusets.

Paul
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