Bug#510624: ITP: pigz -- Parallel Implementation of GZip
Josselin Mouette, le Sun 04 Jan 2009 16:07:25 +0100, a écrit :
> Le dimanche 04 janvier 2009 à 15:49 +0100, Eduard Bloch a écrit :
> > Sounds like a plan, but I don't feel very comfortable to do that in the
> > Debian package. Let me explain why:
> >
> > - sched_setaffinity method seems to be Linux specific
>
> How is that a problem? You only need to use it in Linux builds.
And revert to using sysconf() in the cases when you're not on Linux.
> > - it's hard to imagine environments with big difference between
> > count(cores) and count(available cores)
>
> It’s already the case in HPC environments, and CPU pinning is certainly
> going to be used more widely as the number of cores increases.
And that's a shame. Linux shouldn't be so happy to move tasks between
CPUs...
Samuel
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