linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 14/14] kthread_worker: Add set_kthread_worker

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Message-ID: <20150728174154.GG5322@mtj.duckdns.org>
Date:	Tue, 28 Jul 2015 13:41:54 -0400
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
	live-patching@...r.kernel.org, linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 14/14] kthread_worker: Add
 set_kthread_worker_scheduler*()

On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 04:39:31PM +0200, Petr Mladek wrote:
> +/**
> + * set_kthread_worker_scheduler - change the scheduling policy and/or RT
> + *	priority of a kthread worker.
> + * @worker: target kthread_worker
> + * @policy: new policy
> + * @sched_priority: new RT priority
> + *
> + * Return: 0 on success. An error code otherwise.
> + */
> +int set_kthread_worker_scheduler(struct kthread_worker *worker,
> +				 int policy, int sched_priority)
> +{
> +	return __set_kthread_worker_scheduler(worker, policy, sched_priority,
> +					      true);
> +}

Ditto.  I don't get why we would want these thin wrappers.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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