Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Feb 2002 17:58:53 +0530 | From | Dipankar Sarma <> | Subject | Re: [Lse-tech] Re: [PATCH] O(1) scheduler set_cpus_allowed for non-current tasks |
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On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 01:47:43PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote: > But this particular problem did not hurt me, since I now run a > "suicide" thread on the dying CPU, making it safe and trivial to manually > re-queue processes. The question of what to do with processes which cannot > be scheduled on any remaining CPUs is another interesting question.
If these are processes that are bound to the CPU to be shut down, wouldn't it make sense to fail the CPU shut down operation ? If you are giving enough control to the user to make CPU affinity decisions, they better know how to cleanup before shutting down a CPU.
Thanks -- Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> http://lse.sourceforge.net Linux Technology Center, IBM Software Lab, Bangalore, India. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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