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

Rusty Russell
2004-02-03T08:28:27Z

In message <20040203080436.GA374@elte.hu> you write:
>
> * 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.

We use /sbin/hotplug at the moment. I'm hoping that DBUS turn this
from "possible" into "easy" some day...

Thanks,
Rusty.
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