linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kthread: Don't looking for a task in create

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Date:	Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:00:19 +0100
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Vitaliy Gusev <vgusev@...nvz.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kthread: Don't looking for a task in create_kthread()
	#2

On 01/20, Vitaliy Gusev wrote:
>
> On 20 January 2009 15:06:42 Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> >
> > BTW. Perhaps it also makes sense to move sched_setscheduler/etc code
> > from create_kthread() to kthread_create(), what do you think?
>
> I don't thinks so. create_kthread() is executed in kthreadd process and
> sched_setscheduler/etc preparation things are reflected to kthreadd's CPU usage.
> In other words it is a kthreadd matter, start and setup a thread.

can't understand...

Perhaps I missed something, but from the correctness pov it doesn't
matter who does sched_setscheduler/etc (except _nocheck() would be
better). However it does matter from the scalability pov, we should
move as much as possible from create_kthread() because we have a
single process with executes the "create" requests.

OK, please forget. This reminds me kthread.c needs a major rework
anyway, hopefully I'll try to do this soon.

Oleg.

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