linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] usermodehelper: kill ____call_usermodehelper()->set_cpus_allowed

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Date:	Thu, 5 Dec 2013 19:13:11 +0000
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
cc:	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, zhang.yi20@....com.cn,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] usermodehelper: kill
 ____call_usermodehelper()->set_cpus_allowed_ptr()

On Thu, 5 Dec 2013, Oleg Nesterov wrote:

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

We would like to control OS spawning of threads and restrict them to a
limited set of cpus so that the other processors can do latency sensitive
work without being impacted by creation of kernel threads etc.

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