linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/5] cpusets: dynamical scheduler domain flags

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Date:	Mon, 23 Jul 2012 10:30:59 +0800
From:	Michael Wang <wangyun@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
CC:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, mingo@...hat.com,
	paul@...lmenage.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] cpusets: dynamical scheduler domain flags

On 07/21/2012 12:42 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-07-17 at 17:03 +0800, Michael Wang wrote:
>> This patch set provide a way for user to dynamically configure the scheduler
>> domain flags, which usually to be static. 
> 
> NAK.. you don't get to expose all this nonsense in a 'stable' ABI.
> 
> You shouldn't need to prod at them to begin with.

So is that means expose those domain flags to user is a bad idea at all?

Is this caused by that people don't need such feature or this feature
has do harm to kernel's stability?(it could be not...)

Regards,
Michael Wang

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