Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 3 Oct 2004 18:56:10 -0700 | From | Paul Jackson <> | Subject | Re: [Lse-tech] [PATCH] cpusets - big numa cpu and memory placement |
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Tim wrote: > 7 years ago, before cpus_allowed was dreamed up, I proposed a pset patch
One more thing ... the original message from Simon and Sylvain that I first saw a year ago announcing their cpuset work, which is the basis for the current cpuset patch in Andrew's tree, began with the lines:
> From: Simon Derr <Simon.Derr@bull.net> > Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 17:59:01 +0200 (DFT) > To: lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org > cc: Sylvain Jeaugey <sylvain.jeaugey@bull.net> > > We have developped a new feature in the Linux kernel, controlling CPU > placements, which are useful on large SMP machines, especially NUMA ones. > We call it CPUSETS, and we would highly appreciate to know about anyone > who would be interested in such a feature. This has been somewhat inspired > by the pset or cpumemset patches existing for Linux 2.4.
So I guess Tim, you (pset) and I (cpumemset) can both claim to have developed anticedents of this current cpuset proposal.
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