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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:29:31 -0700 From: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@...ibm.com> To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com> CC: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "kvm@...r.kernel.org" <kvm@...r.kernel.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@...ial.com>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH repost] sched: export sched_set/getaffinity to modules On 7/14/2010 5:05 PM, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > On 07/14, Sridhar Samudrala wrote: > >> OK. So we want to create a thread that is a child of kthreadd, but inherits the cgroup/cpumask >> from the caller. How about an exported kthread function kthread_create_in_current_cg() >> that does this? >> > Well. I must admit, this looks a bit strange to me ;) > > Instead of exporting sched_xxxaffinity() we export the new function > which calls them. And I don't think this new helper is very useful > in general. May be I am wrong... > If we agree on exporting sched_xxxaffinity() functions, we don't need this new kthread function and we can do the same in vhost as the original patch did. Thanks Sridhar -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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