linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] CPU hotplug, cpusets: Fix issues with cpusets handling upon CPU hotplug

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Date:	Fri, 04 May 2012 22:56:21 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To:	Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	"Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	mingo@...nel.org, pjt@...gle.com, paul@...lmenage.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, rjw@...k.pl, nacc@...ibm.com,
	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, tglx@...utronix.de,
	seto.hidetoshi@...fujitsu.com, rob@...dley.net, tj@...nel.org,
	mschmidt@...hat.com, berrange@...hat.com,
	nikunj@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, vatsa@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-pm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] CPU hotplug, cpusets: Fix issues with cpusets
 handling upon CPU hotplug

On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 13:46 -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
> What about other users of cpusets (what are they?)? 

cpusets came from SGI, its traditionally used to partition _large_
machines. Things like the batch/job-schedulers that go with that type of
setup use it.

I've no clue why libvirt uses it (or why one would use libvirt for that
matter).
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