Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Nov 2013 15:59:48 +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 09:57:23AM -0500, Tejun Heo wrote: > On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 03:55:05PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > Because that is exactly what some users desire? Some RT and HPC people > > want all those crypt jobs to run on a few designated cpus and not wreck > > their compute jobs. > > And you can't do that reliably from userland. Those things are > created dynamically. workqueue provides per-workqueue attributes to > enable those use cases. It doesn't have system-wide default > attributes right now but adding that shouldn't be too difficult.
Like a parent process, right? So people can use the existing task interfaces.
Or are we going to tell people; here, there's cgroups for managing your tasks. Oh and here is this crippled interface X for if you want to manage these few tasks, and interface Y for managing these other few tasks.
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