Kernel threads inherit CPU affinity from random sibling

[Ryan Stone]

On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Attilio Rao <attilio at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Do you have a pathological test-case for it? Are you going to test the patch?
>
> Thanks,
> Attilio

I tested the patch last night.  Previously I was able to see a
softclock thread preempted for over 1ms on machine where 4/8 cores
were lightly loaded.  With this patch I can see that the softclock
threads are free to migrate cores and they no longer see long
scheduling latencies.