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SubjectRe: [PATCH] syscall interface for cpu affinity
Picking nits, but....

Andreas Ferber wrote:

> 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.

I soule suggest that the order be

int sched_set_affinity(int who, int which, unsigned int len,
unsigned long *new_mask_ptr);

This would have the {p,pg}id be the first thing that a programmer
would see (likely more important than the 'which'.).


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