From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754076AbZKUMFc (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:05:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753505AbZKUMFb (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:05:31 -0500 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:39442 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753463AbZKUMFb (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:05:31 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/19] scheduler: implement force_cpus_allowed() From: Peter Zijlstra To: Tejun Heo Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, awalls@radix.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jeff@garzik.org, mingo@elte.hu, akpm@linux-foundation.org, jens.axboe@oracle.com, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, cl@linux-foundation.org, dhowells@redhat.com, arjan@linux.intel.com, avi@redhat.com, johannes@sipsolutions.net In-Reply-To: <1258692407-8985-7-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> References: <1258692407-8985-1-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> <1258692407-8985-7-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:04:43 +0100 Message-ID: <1258805083.4104.918.camel@laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 13:46 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > Implement force_cpus_allowed() which is similar to > set_cpus_allowed_ptr() but bypasses PF_THREAD_BOUND check and ignores > cpu_active() status as long as the target cpu is online. This will be > used for concurrency-managed workqueue. This is a very unsatisfactory changelog and after staring at the patch for a few minutes I still go WTF?!