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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Martin Galvan <omgalvan.86@gmail.com>
Cc: Bharath Vedartham <linux.bhar@gmail.com>,
	kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Re: Setting CPU affinity for current process on kernel module?
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 05:50:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190913045045.GC120223@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN19L9G-GAeB2ahmSckd6orprAP0E-YykbMF3fg2zMSXMQH_vA@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 11:03:20AM -0300, Martin Galvan wrote:
> El jue., 12 sept. 2019 a las 6:26, Bharath Vedartham
> (<linux.bhar@gmail.com>) escribió:
> > Just to be clear, What do you mean by current process. Is it the process
> > which is executing the kernel module? That would be a kernel thread I
> > believe or do you want to be able to set the cpu affinity for any
> > process given its PID?
> > And are you looking at setting CPU affinity of kernel threads or user
> > threads.
> 
> Sorry, I wasn't clear: I want to set the affinity of 'current', which
> is a kernel thread.

I really hate to ask, but _why_ do you feel that this is the correct
solution to your problem?  What is the problem you are attempting to
solve by doing this?

thanks,

greg k-h

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-13  4:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-11 18:52 Setting CPU affinity for current process on kernel module? Martin Galvan
2019-09-11 19:16 ` Bharath Vedartham
2019-09-11 19:19   ` Martin Galvan
2019-09-12  9:26     ` Bharath Vedartham
2019-09-12 14:03       ` Martin Galvan
2019-09-13  4:50         ` Greg KH [this message]
2019-09-13 12:43           ` Martin Galvan
2019-09-13 12:55             ` Greg KH
2019-09-13 12:56               ` Martin Galvan
2019-09-13 14:13                 ` Greg KH
2019-09-19  5:43                   ` R. Engür Pişirici

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