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Quoting Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>:

> > - Add ability to restrict the the default CPU affinity mask so that 
> >  sys_setaffinity() can be used to implement exclusive access to a CPU.
> 
> Why is this useful?

I forgot to add that the result is the rough equivalent of Digital UNIX's psets
and Irix's sysmp for my prurposes at least.