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On 9/20/06, Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> wrote:
> these various mechanisms, including cpusets.  It would be good to
> persue this common technology infrastructure -before- the kernel to
> user API of these other thingies gets frozen, as the details of just
> what this common code can do conveniently might impact details of the
> kernel API presented to users.

Indeed - although one of the advantages of the patch I sent is that it
can continue to present exactly the same interface, and functionality,
to userspace as the current cpusets code does. It wouldn't be
necessary to change the userspace API until the "generic" requirements
were more baked.

Paul