[Toybox] Bad idea regarding threading...

[Rob Landley]

On 04/30/2012 02:46 AM, Elie De Brauwer wrote:
> Indeed, when I have some cores dedicated to chewing some data, I don't
> want some recursive chmod which some **** typed into a prompt to flood
> the scheduler. So selecting the number of cores automatically is good,
> but allowing an override is better. And when you use magic such as
> isolcpus ( http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> ) whilst  the number of cores is automatically selected, this will
> just result in a whole bunch of blocked threads. Anyhow, imho that all
> is.

This is one of the things containers is intended for: "This workload has
dedicated access to these processors."

Rob
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