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From: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>, Peter Zijlstra <pzijlstr@redhat.com>,
	Ingo <mingo@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [patch,v2] bdi: add a user-tunable cpu_list for the bdi flusher threads
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 19:19:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50C0E1B6.5060602@fusionio.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121206180150.GQ19802@htj.dyndns.org>

On 2012-12-06 19:01, Tejun Heo wrote:
> As for the original patch, I think it's a bit too much to expose to
> userland.  It's probably a good idea to bind the flusher to the local
> node but do we really need to expose an interface to let userland
> control the affinity directly?  Do we actually have a use case at
> hand?

We need to expose it. Once the binding is set from the kernel side on a
kernel thread, it can't be modified.

Binding either for performance reasons or for ensuring that we
explicitly don't run in some places is a very useful feature.

-- 
Jens Axboe


  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-12-06 18:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-03 18:53 [patch,v2] bdi: add a user-tunable cpu_list for the bdi flusher threads Jeff Moyer
2012-12-04  2:34 ` Dave Chinner
2012-12-04 14:42   ` Jeff Moyer
2012-12-04 20:35     ` Dave Chinner
2012-12-04 20:14 ` Jens Axboe
2012-12-04 20:23   ` Jeff Moyer
2012-12-04 20:27     ` Jens Axboe
2012-12-04 22:26       ` Jeff Moyer
2012-12-05  7:43         ` Jens Axboe
2012-12-06 18:01         ` Tejun Heo
2012-12-06 18:08           ` Jeff Moyer
2012-12-06 18:13             ` Tejun Heo
2012-12-06 18:19           ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2012-12-06 18:22             ` Tejun Heo
2012-12-06 18:33               ` Jeff Moyer

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