Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 28 Nov 2013 16:18:22 +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 10:10:35AM -0500, Tejun Heo wrote: > On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 04:07:04PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 10:02:10AM -0500, Tejun Heo wrote: > > > > So far I just see you breaking existing setups because you don't want to > > > > support things that work perfectly well. > > > > > > It doesn't work as explained multiple times in this thread. > > > > It used to.. just not on recent kernels. You know 'enterprise' latency. > > If you're talking about khelfper and wanna restore it, it really > should be broken out into a separate kthread. It doesn't make any > sense to implement that in the workqueue framework. Why would you > implement a dedicated task inside a worker pool implementation which > makes use of the said tasks? There's even kthread_work interface > which pretty much provides workqueue-equivalent interface on top of a > single task for cases like this.
That would only solve one of my problems. People want to contain the unbound workqueues too.
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