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RE: 'sysmp' system call for Linux ?

To: Gregoire Banderet <gregb@xxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: 'sysmp' system call for Linux ?
From: Dimitris Michailidis <dimitris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 12:08:46 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: linux-scalability@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <39B4CFF0.6B313800@sgi.com>
Organization: SGI
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On 05-Sep-2000 Gregoire Banderet wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Is there any plan to implement the following functionality in the linux
> kernel (ProPack 1.x) ?
> 
> 1. MP_MUSTRUN : Assigns the calling process to run on a specified
>                 processor 
> 2. MP_EMPOWER:  Empower a specified processor to run any unrestricted
>                 processes. 
> 3. MP_RESTRICT: Restrict a specified processor from running any 
>                 other processes. 
> 4.MP_RUNANYWHERE_PID: Frees a specified process to run on any 
>                       processor.

Definitely not in this form.  Not now, not ever, not in the official tree. 
MP_MUSTRUN and MP_RUNANYWHERE_PID will be available as special cases of a
more general facility at some point.

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Dimitris Michailidis                    dimitris@xxxxxxxxxxxx

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