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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/1] usermodehelper: kill ____call_usermodehelper()->set_cpus_allowed_ptr()
Hi,

On 12/05, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 03:37:45PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> >
> > OK, but I'd like to remind just in case, as Tejun pointed out this
> > patch is wrong ;)
> >
> > And "change the affinity of workqueue themselves" is not simple, but
> > we can make khelper_wq WQ_SYSFS.
>
> Maybe workqueue should implement and expose default attributes which
> are inherited by all workqueues unless they're explicitly overridden?
> The use case here is not really about isolating certain subgroup of
> workers but rather being able to control the default behavior, right?

Perhaps, I simply do not know what the users want.

Either way, if khelper_wq will be controlled by sysfs, then this
set_cpus_allowed_ptr() should probably die.

Oleg.



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