From 2ce777b42cdee70eabd1de7a0f03d53148254868 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:08:34 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] sched_setaffinity.2: wfix --- man2/sched_setaffinity.2 | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/man2/sched_setaffinity.2 b/man2/sched_setaffinity.2 index c37afd605..5297dc6d7 100644 --- a/man2/sched_setaffinity.2 +++ b/man2/sched_setaffinity.2 @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ by dedicating one CPU to a particular process (i.e., setting the affinity mask of that process to specify a single CPU, and setting the affinity mask of all other processes to exclude that CPU), it is possible to ensure maximum execution speed for that process. -Restricting a process to run on a single CPU also prevents +Restricting a process to run on a single CPU also avoids the performance cost caused by the cache invalidation that occurs when a process ceases to execute on one CPU and then recommences execution on a different CPU.