Re: [PATCH repost] sched: export sched_set/getaffinity to modules

Sridhar Samudrala
2010-07-15T05:29:31Z

On 7/14/2010 5:05 PM, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 07/14, Sridhar Samudrala wrote:
>
>> OK. So we want to create a thread that is a child of kthreadd, but inherits the cgroup/cpumask
>> from the caller. How about an exported kthread function kthread_create_in_current_cg()
>> that does this?
>>
> Well. I must admit, this looks a bit strange to me ;)
>
> Instead of exporting sched_xxxaffinity() we export the new function
> which calls them. And I don't think this new helper is very useful
> in general. May be I am wrong...
>
If we agree on exporting sched_xxxaffinity() functions, we don't need
this new kthread function and we
can do the same in vhost as the original patch did.

Thanks
Sridhar