Re: [PATCH/RFC] Have sane default values for cpusets

From: Balbir Singh
Date: Wed May 12 2010 - 15:30:27 EST


* Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@xxxxxxxxx> [2010-05-12 15:05:41]:

> Hi folks,
>
> This does not break ABI since applications which were explicitly setting
> up the cpusets will still be setting them up anyway. And if someone was
> checking if a cpuset was setup or not by checking the state of
> cpuset.cpus_allowed, then it was broken and should be fixed.
>

The only ABI breakage I would consider is

A user space application reading those values and expecting them to
be empty before taking any action

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Three Cheers,
Balbir
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