Re: [PATCH 2/3] relay: Fix race condition which occurs whenreading across CPUs.

From: Mathieu Desnoyers
Date: Tue Jun 17 2008 - 09:50:45 EST


* Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu (eduard.munteanu@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:10:36 -0400
> Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Do you get the same results when not using a buffered read to read
> > /proc/PID/stat ? Also, since the internal proc handle might buffer the
> > information, closing the file and re-opening it after the set affinity
> > would not be a bad idea.
> >
> > Mathieu
>
> Tested your suggestions now, looks fine. 5 instances end up on CPU 1,
> one on CPU 0, no errors printed by the application.
>

Yeah, although using set affinity with CPU hotplug is broken by design.

Mathieu

>
> Eduard
>

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