Messages in this thread |  | | From | Nathan Dabney <> | Date | Tue, 27 Nov 2001 13:31:33 -0800 | Subject | Re: [patch] sched_[set|get]_affinity() syscall, 2.4.15-pre9 |
| |
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 03:53:04PM -0500, Robert Love wrote: > Effecting all tasks matching a uid or some other filter is a little > beyond what either patch does. Note however that both interfaces have > atomicity.
I don't see a need for that either, the inheritance and single-process change are the major abilities needed.
> You can open and write to proc from within a program ... very easily, in > fact. > > Also, with some sed and grep magic, you can set the affinity of all > tasks via the proc interface pretty easy. Just a couple lines.
>From the admin point of view, this last ability is a good one.
A read-only entry in proc wouldn't do much good by itself. The writable /proc entry is the one that sounds interesting.
-Nathan
> Robert Love > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
|  |