Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 28 Nov 2013 15:38:57 +0100 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH]: exec: avoid propagating PF_NO_SETAFFINITY into userspace child |
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On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 09:13:29AM -0500, Tejun Heo wrote: > > A single parent process for all usermode helpers makes so much sense; > > not doing it is just weird. > > If we're gonna allow userland to play with the parent attributes, > yeah, that'd make sense. I'm not sure whether that's an interface > that we'd want to commit to tho? Do we really want to tell userland > "there will always be a kernel task khelper and if you change that > one's attributes all processes forked from it will inherit those > attributes no matter what they are." I think we'd want something more > specific cause that's a lot of commitment to things that we haven't > carefully thought about.
It seems like a perfectly fine interface to me. And much preferable to creating yet another weird interface to manage tasks.
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