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From: Felipe Alfaro Solana <yo@felipe-alfaro.com>
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On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 00:49, Shaheed R. Haque wrote:
> 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.

And psets and fencing in Solaris too...