Re: Processor sets, affinity, real-time extensions

[jnemeth%victoria.tc.ca@localhost (John Nemeth)]

On Jun 2, 10:15am, "Mindaugas R." wrote:
} jnemeth%victoria.tc.ca@localhost (John Nemeth) wrote:
} 
} >      Also, will there be a way to forcibly remove all processes from a
} > processor regardless of affinity and cease scheduling any processes on
} > it?  I'm thinking this would be useful if you discover there is some
} > kind of problem with the processor or you want to physically remove the
} > processor from the machine.
} 
} Processor-sets are designed for that.
} cpuctl(8) disables running of user-threads completely.

     cpuctl(8) offline says:

                                Bound LWPs will continue to be executed on the
         CPU, and device interrupts routed to the CPU will continue to be han-
         dled.

     Is this still true, since it doesn't meet the needs mentioned above?

}-- End of excerpt from "Mindaugas R."