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SubjectRe: [PATCH]: exec: avoid propagating PF_NO_SETAFFINITY into userspace child
On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 03:43:59PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 03:31:45PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Sure, we absolutely must set it for per-cpu workqueues (and their
> > workers) otherwise we cannot guarantee correctness. Same for per-node if
> > we have that.
>
> On that, the per-node thing is debatable. There's no correctness issues
> with per-node stuff as we have with per-cpu storage.
>
> And if there's no correctness implications we should not force things.

That's true iff you confine the "correctness" to not crashing. That's
an extremely narrow definition tho and most will argue against that.

--
tejun


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