From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Restrict kernel spawning of threads to a specified set of cpus.
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 16:04:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130913140422.GE4844@somewhere> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00000141179222e5-8a10141c-7b95-4204-853c-ab266fd08532-000000@email.amazonses.com>
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 01:45:55PM +0000, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Sep 2013, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
>
> > So yeah it's a problem in theory. Now in practice, I have yet to be convinced because
> > this should be solved after a few iterations in /proc in most cases.
>
> I have seen some drivers regularly spawning threads all over the machnine.
> This is a practical issue that I am addresing.
> >
> > Now the issue doesn't only concern kthreads but all tasks in the system.
> > If we really want to solve that race, then may be we can think of a kernel_parameter
> > that sets the initial affinity of init and then lets get it naturally inherited
> > through the whole tree.
>
> This patch that we are discussing does exactly that.
>
Indeed, I just looked that again and your cpu_kthread_mask actually also applies to init.
cpu_init_mask would be a better name I think.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-13 14:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-05 20:07 [RFC] Restrict kernel spawning of threads to a specified set of cpus Christoph Lameter
2013-09-10 6:05 ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2013-09-10 6:47 ` Mike Galbraith
2013-09-10 6:59 ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2013-09-10 7:26 ` Mike Galbraith
2013-09-10 7:56 ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2013-09-10 8:53 ` Mike Galbraith
2013-09-10 21:10 ` Christoph Lameter
2013-09-11 3:20 ` Mike Galbraith
2013-09-11 14:21 ` Christoph Lameter
2013-09-11 14:53 ` Mike Galbraith
2013-09-11 16:56 ` Christoph Lameter
2013-09-11 21:36 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-09-12 3:30 ` Mike Galbraith
2013-09-10 21:08 ` Christoph Lameter
2013-09-10 7:39 ` Rob Landley
2013-09-10 21:11 ` Christoph Lameter
2013-09-11 22:02 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-09-12 14:10 ` Christoph Lameter
2013-09-12 14:16 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-09-12 14:22 ` Christoph Lameter
2013-09-12 14:31 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-09-12 14:52 ` Christoph Lameter
2013-09-12 15:11 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-09-12 15:32 ` Christoph Lameter
2013-09-12 18:45 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-09-12 15:39 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-12 18:35 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-09-12 18:51 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-15 13:53 ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
[not found] ` <alpine.DEB.2.02.1309121030390.21473@gentwo.org>
2013-09-12 15:42 ` Christoph Lameter
2013-09-12 18:30 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-09-13 9:25 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-09-13 13:54 ` Christoph Lameter
2013-09-13 14:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-09-13 15:15 ` Christoph Lameter
[not found] ` <alpine.DEB.2.02.1309131010480.26487@gentwo.org>
2013-09-13 15:40 ` Christoph Lameter
2013-09-16 6:02 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-09-13 13:45 ` Christoph Lameter
2013-09-13 14:04 ` Frederic Weisbecker [this message]
2013-09-13 14:25 ` Christoph Lameter
2013-09-15 13:47 ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
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