Samuel Thibault wrote: > Brice Goglin, le Fri 29 Jan 2010 22:48:13 +0100, a écrit : > >> I am looking at the remaining tickets for v1.0. Assuming there are no >> "critical" warning anymore, and assuming we have done enough for people >> to combine network topologies (manually for now), only 2 ticket remains: >> #12 support user-defined processor restriction >> #21 Allow lookup of specific PIDs >> >> I understand #12 but I am not sure what #21 actually needs. We would do >> a get_cpubind(pid) and then what ? Do a processor restriction as defined >> in #12 ? >> > > There is a difference between the current CPU binding (#12) and > detecting the topology as if being called from another process (and > getting a different view of the machine because of different applied > cpusets, etc.) >
I still don't see much difference. In #12, you get_cpubind(pid=0) and use the resulting cpuset to restrict our topology. In #21, you get_cpubind(another pid) and apply the cpuset to restrict our topology as well. Brice
