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Message-ID: <1257448275.3923.1.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:11:15 -0800
From: john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>
To: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
Cc: Darren Hart <dvhltc@...ibm.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Mike Fulton <fultonm@...ibm.com>,
Sean Foley <Sean_Foley@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Add prctl to set sibling thread names
On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 14:42 +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> > KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> > >> KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> John, I'd prefer to suggested another design.
> > >>> How about this?
> > >>>
> > >>> 1. remove pid argument from prctl
> > >>> 2. cancel pthread_setname_np()
> > >>> 3. instead, create pthread_attr_setname_np()
> > >>> 4. pthread_create() change own thread name by pthread_attr.
> > >>>
> > >>> It avoid many racy problem automatically.
> > >> Perhaps, but it also greatly reduces the flexibility of the
> > >> implementation by restricting name changes to create time.
> > >
> > > Hm.
> > > if your program really need to change another thread name, can you please tell us
> > > why it is necessary and when it is used?
> >
> > I think John's previous mails covered that pretty well. As for doing the
> > name change at create time, or sometime later, it just seems to me that
> > the flexibility of doing so later is worth having. While I know we don't
> > have to follow other systems implementations, in this case
> > pthread_setname_np() seems a reasonable model to follow to me.
>
> You only said your mode is more flexible. but I want to know _why_ this flexibiliby is
> necessay. please tell us concrete use-case.
You can read Sean's example from this thread here:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/27/259
thanks
-john
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