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Processor affinity

A modification of the naive central queue scheduling algorithm. Each thread in the queue has a tag indicating its prefereed / kin processor. At allocation time, each thread is allocated to ites kin processor. This can effectively reduce cache problems. However, it does not kerb the persistant load-balancing problem.

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