Finally looked at taskset. Why is this in BusyBox?
walter harms
wharms at bfs.de
Fri Jun 16 04:14:47 UTC 2006
it is not totaly crap.
there are embedded system with smp. they are used for realtime picture/
signal analysis. they have impressive performances.
ntl i do not have such a system or have i anything to do with the code.
move it to the misc section and make it selectable.
just my 2 cents,
walter
Rob Landley wrote:
> So taskset is throwing a warning. Taskset is an applet to set/fetch CPU
> affinity. How many processors does your average embedded system have? How
> many processors does your average desktop have?
>
> Why on EARTH was this added to BusyBox? This is not only not needed by any
> non-SMP system, but most SMP systems shouldn't need it either. It's only
> needed on SMP systems heavily loaded enough that you need to bypass the O(1)
> scheduler to do a reasonable job (which back before our scheduler became NUMA
> aware generally meant you wanted to avoid cross-node migration costs)
>
> I just want to know what the rationale is here. Who asked for this? What
> were they trying to _do_? What, hard realtime? Is this in our perview?
>
> *BOGGLE*
>
> Rob
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