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SubjectRe: [PATCH] kmod: Run usermodehelpers only on cpus allowed for kthreadd V2
On Fri, 8 Nov 2013, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:

> But it looks like it always end up calling a workqueue. May be I missed something though.
>
> Now we can argue that this workqueue seem to create kernel threads, which in turn create other kernel thread (uhh?)
> and I don't know if those inherit the kworker affinity. But from a quick look, it seems to me that
> this is what we want.

Right. The problem is that the affinity cannot be inherited since
usermodehelper may be called from a workqueue or other restricted kernel
context. The main point of the usermodehelper logic is to work itself out
of the restrictions of the context in which is was called to be able to
fork off a kernel thread that then can call a userspace helper program.

I want to restrict on which processors this working out of the limiting
context can occur. It should not occur on low latency processors nor
should user space stuff be run there.

Without this patch we see various processes being sprinkled over all the
processors in the system when usermodehelper is invoked.


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