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Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:41:55 +0300 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com> To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com> Cc: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@...ibm.com>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, 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 Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 08:08:34PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > On 07/26, Sridhar Samudrala wrote: > > > > I have been testing out a similar patch that uses kernel_thread() without CLONE_FILES > > flag rather than create_kthread() and then closing the files. > > !CLONE_FILES can't help. copy_files() does dup_fd() in this case. > The child still inherits the files. > > > Either version should be fine. > > I think neither version is fine ;) > > exit_files() is not enough too. How about the signals, reparenting? > > > I already forgot all details, probably I missed somethig. But it > seems to me that it is better to just export get/set affinity and > forget about all complications. > > Oleg. Oleg, so can I attach your Ack to the patch in question, and merge it all through net-next? -- MST -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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