On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 01:15:03PM -0500, Robert Love wrote:
>
> This patch implements
>
> int sched_set_affinity(pid_t pid, unsigned int len,
> unsigned long *new_mask_ptr);
>
> int sched_get_affinity(pid_t pid, unsigned int *user_len_ptr,
> unsigned long *user_mask_ptr)
>
> which set and get the cpu affinity (task->cpus_allowed) for a task,
> using the set_cpus_allowed function in Ingo's scheduler. The functions
> properly support changes to cpus_allowed, implement security, and are
> well-tested.
Setting the affinity of a whole process group also makes sense IMHO.
Therefore I think an interface more like the setpriority syscall
for sched_set_affinity (with two parameters which/who instead of a
single PID) would be more flexible, eg.
int sched_set_affinity(int which, int who, unsigned int len,
unsigned long *new_mask_ptr);
with who one of {PRIO_PROCESS,PRIO_PGRP,PRIO_USER} and which according
to the value of who.
Getting the mask of a group of processes doesn't make sense though
(what if they differ?), so the current interface of sched_get_affinity
is just fine IMHO.
Andreas
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