Re: 2.6.11-mm2

["J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>]

HI all...

On 03.08, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11/2.6.11-mm2/
> 

(replied to this because this is the kernel I am testing on :) )

Can cpu affinity really be changed for a running process ?
Does it need something like io or yielding to take effect ?

I am playin with Robert Love's taskset (symlinked to runon, it is easier
to type and I'm more used to it), because I want to play with hyperthreading
and wanted a method to force two threads on the same physical package.
It works fine to bound a new process to a cpu set, but I does not change
anything for a running process.

I try runon -c -p 0 <pid> for my numbercruncher and it does nothing, top
shows it is in the same cpus where it started:

werewolf:~# runon -c -p 0 8277
pid 8277's current affinity list: 0-3
pid 8277's new affinity list: 0
werewolf:~# runon -c -p 8277
pid 8277's current affinity list: 0

The program uses posix threads, 2 in this case. The two threads change from
cpu sometimes (not too often), but do not go into the same processor
immediately as when I start the program directly with runon/taskset.

Any idea ?

TIA

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