Re: [PATCH 3/4] 2.6.2-rc2-mm2 CPU Hotplug: The Core

Ingo Molnar
2004-02-03T08:04:13Z

* Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> 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