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Message-ID: <47A35D55.8080708@zytor.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:56:37 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To: dean gaudet <dean@...tic.org>
CC: Yi Yang <yi.y.yang@...el.com>, tglx@...utronix.de,
mingo@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.24] x86: add sysfs interface for cpuid module
dean gaudet wrote:
> why do we need another kernel cpuid reading method when sched_setaffinity
> exists and cpuid is available in ring3?
Because /dev/cpu/*/cpuid:
a) predates sched_setaffinity by quite a few years
b) is already widely used
c) doesn't have issues with relative priorities (using sched_setaffinity
can easily wait forever.)
d) can be accessed by unprivileged processes given appropriate device
info.
-hpa
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