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Message-ID: <20100701122340.GB31333@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 15:23:40 +0300
From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Sridhar Samudrala <sri@...ibm.com>,
Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
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 Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 02:55:07PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 01:43:23PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 13:19 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 14:07 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > > Author: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@...ibm.com>
> > > >
> > > > sched: export sched_set/getaffinity to modules
> > > >
> > > > vhost-net driver wants to copy the affinity from the
> > > > owner thread to thread it creates. Export
> > > > sched_set/get affinity to modules to make this possible
> > > > when vhost is built as a module.
> >
> > > Urgh,.. so why again is that a good idea?
> >
> > In particular:
> > - who sets the affinity of the task?
>
> management tools do this when they start qemu.
>
> > - why can't it set the kernel thread's affinity too?
>
> It can. However: the threads are started internally by the driver
> when qemu does an ioctl. What we want to do is give it a sensible
> default affinity. management tool can later tweak it if it wants to.
>
> > - what happens if someone changes the tasks' affinity?
>
> We would normally create a cgroup including all internal
> tasks, making it easy to find and change affinity for
> them all if necessary.
>
> > So no, I don't think this is a sensible thing to do at all.
The patch using this is here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/kvm@vger.kernel.org/msg35411.html
It simply copies the affinity from the parent when thread is created.
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