linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kmod: Run usermodehelpers only on cpus allowed for kthreadd V2

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Date:	Fri, 8 Nov 2013 19:52:37 +0000
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@...ine.de>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@...yossef.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kmod: Run usermodehelpers only on cpus allowed for
 kthreadd V2

On Fri, 8 Nov 2013, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:

> I understand, but why not solving that from the workqueue affinity? We want to
> solve the issue of unbound workqueues in CPU isolation anyway.

Sure if you can solve that with an unbound work queue then this patch is
not needed. Do you have a patch that addresses this issue in your
patchset? How far out is the merging of that patch?

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