On 2015-12-02 at 07:30 "'Davide Libenzi' via Akaros"
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> It's question day!! 😀

Yay!  \o/

> What if one of those cores is already assigned to another task. Will
> the two time share the overlapping cores, or the system call will
> fail?

Say pcore 5 is allocated to process 4, and then pcore 5 is provisioned
to another process, say PID 3.  If PID 3 has a request for more cores
(i.e., they want more cores than they currently have), then the kernel
scheduler will preempt pcore 5 from PID 4 and allocated pcore 5 to PID
3.

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