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From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Restrict kernel spawning of threads to a specified set of cpus.
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 02:39:16 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1378798756.8385.24@driftwood> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00000140efbcb701-c26320b3-f434-4538-bc80-8e92fed6f303-000000@email.amazonses.com> (from cl@linux.com on Thu Sep  5 15:07:37 2013)

On 09/05/2013 03:07:37 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> I am not sure how to call this kernel option but we need something  
> like
> that. I see drivers and the kernel spawning processes on the nohz  
> cores.
> The name kthread is not really catching the purpose.

Can't you just use the CPU affinity of PID 1 for this? Since it's a  
process that's always there and already has a mask and all. No need for  
a new interface...

Rob

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-09-10 17:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-05 20:07 [RFC] Restrict kernel spawning of threads to a specified set of cpus Christoph Lameter
2013-09-10  6:05 ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2013-09-10  6:47   ` Mike Galbraith
2013-09-10  6:59     ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2013-09-10  7:26       ` Mike Galbraith
2013-09-10  7:56         ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2013-09-10  8:53           ` Mike Galbraith
2013-09-10 21:10           ` Christoph Lameter
2013-09-11  3:20             ` Mike Galbraith
2013-09-11 14:21               ` Christoph Lameter
2013-09-11 14:53                 ` Mike Galbraith
2013-09-11 16:56                   ` Christoph Lameter
2013-09-11 21:36                 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-09-12  3:30                   ` Mike Galbraith
2013-09-10 21:08   ` Christoph Lameter
2013-09-10  7:39 ` Rob Landley [this message]
2013-09-10 21:11   ` Christoph Lameter
2013-09-11 22:02 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-09-12 14:10   ` Christoph Lameter
2013-09-12 14:16     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-09-12 14:22       ` Christoph Lameter
2013-09-12 14:31         ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-09-12 14:52           ` Christoph Lameter
2013-09-12 15:11             ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-09-12 15:32               ` Christoph Lameter
2013-09-12 18:45                 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-09-12 15:39               ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-12 18:35                 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-09-12 18:51                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-15 13:53                   ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
     [not found]               ` <alpine.DEB.2.02.1309121030390.21473@gentwo.org>
2013-09-12 15:42                 ` Christoph Lameter
2013-09-12 18:30                   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-09-13  9:25                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-09-13 13:54                       ` Christoph Lameter
2013-09-13 14:40                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-09-13 15:15                           ` Christoph Lameter
     [not found]                           ` <alpine.DEB.2.02.1309131010480.26487@gentwo.org>
2013-09-13 15:40                             ` Christoph Lameter
2013-09-16  6:02                               ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-09-13 13:45                     ` Christoph Lameter
2013-09-13 14:04                       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-09-13 14:25                         ` Christoph Lameter
2013-09-15 13:47       ` Gilad Ben-Yossef

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