From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265907AbUBCIEN (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Feb 2004 03:04:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265931AbUBCIEN (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Feb 2004 03:04:13 -0500 Received: from mx2.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:35240 "EHLO mx2.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265907AbUBCIEK (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Feb 2004 03:04:10 -0500 Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 09:04:36 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Rusty Russell Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nick Piggin , dipankar@in.ibm.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] 2.6.2-rc2-mm2 CPU Hotplug: The Core Message-ID: <20040203080436.GA374@elte.hu> References: <20040202154040.GA5895@elte.hu> <20040203010224.2A2F52C0CB@lists.samba.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040203010224.2A2F52C0CB@lists.samba.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-ELTE-SpamVersion: SpamAssassin 2.60 X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-4.9, required 5.9, BAYES_00 -4.90 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamScore: -4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Rusty Russell wrote: > This terminating signal idea is simply flawed: affinity is inherited, > so you're killing a process which knows nothing anyway. > > If we can't do it well, leave it to userspace to sort out 8) yes, but currently there's no mechanism for userspace to get notified - hence no clean way for userspace to sort it out. (other than userspace continuously polling the CPU mask - bleh.) But this is a separate issue. Ingo