[torqueusers] Compiling 1.2.0p5 with Altix cpuset support

[David Singleton]

I'm pretty sure cpusets changed dramatically for ProPack4 (2.6).
They actually work now :-)  More than that, they dont need a
special API.  You can manage cpusets through standard vfs
operations on (usually) /dev/cpuset/.

# ls /dev/cpuset/
total 0
0 cpu_exclusive  0 mems               0 pagecache_list   0 slabcache_local
0 cpus           0 mpi/               0 pagecache_local  0 tasks
0 mem_exclusive  0 notify_on_release  0 pbs/
# ls /dev/cpuset/mpi/
total 0
0 cpu_exclusive  0 mems               0 pagecache_local
0 cpus           0 notify_on_release  0 slabcache_local
0 mem_exclusive  0 pagecache_list     0 tasks
# cat /dev/cpuset/mpi/cpus
0-7
# cat /dev/cpuset/mpi/mems
0-3
# /bin/echo 1-5 > /dev/cpuset/mpi/cpus
# cat /dev/cpuset/mpi/cpus
1-5

Cheers,
David

Chris Samuel wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 12:27 pm, John Dalton wrote:
> 
> 
>>I've looked on an IRIX box and noticed that cpuset.h in /usr/include
>>and /usr/include/sys DOES define the missing things, so I'm wondering if
>>I'm missing something really obvious or maybe the Altix support isn't
>>really there at all?  Or perhaps it changed in ProPack 4 and nobody has
>>tried building on that yet?
> 
> 
> I would say it has changed in ProPack4 as it's mentioned in SGI's ProPack3 
> docs at:
> 
> http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?coll=linux&db=bks&srch=&fname=/SGI_Admin/LX_Resource_AG/sgi_html/apa.html
> 
> but not in their ProPack4 docs at:
> 
> http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi/linux/bks/SGI_Admin/books/LX_Resource_AG/sgi_html/apb.html
> 
> It's possible that this is a result of Andrew Morton not accepting all of 
> Bull's original cpusets work into his kernel, which eventually propogated 
> through to the mainline in 2.6.12-rc1.  Or maybe SGI didn't push their 
> changes through to the mainline (or they got dropped/bounced).
> 
> Certainly CPUSET_CPU_EXCLUSIVE is not in cpusets.h in the 2.6.12 kernel (which 
> was the first mainline release with it folded in) according to:
> 
> http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.6/12/include/linux/cpuset.h
> 
> good luck!
> Chris
> 
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