linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] work_on_cpu: Use our own workqueue.

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Message-ID: <20090204213519.GR22608@elte.hu>
Date:	Wed, 4 Feb 2009 22:35:19 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>, travis@....com,
	mingo@...hat.com, davej@...hat.com, cpufreq@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] work_on_cpu: Use our own workqueue.


* Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> mm/pdflush.c:
> 
>   wtf what the heck is all that stuff and who added it?  weird.
> 
>   Leave it alone I guess.  Can admins manually move kernel threads to
>   other CPUs?

they can - and there's even tools that do that (there's some -rt tools where 
you can put kernel thread priorities into a config file).

	Ingo
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