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DateTue, 16 Nov 2010 20:56:50 -0500
FromKyle McMartin <>
SubjectRe: [RFC/RFT PATCH v3] sched: automated per tty task groups
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 05:50:41PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Blame me, I threw that out as a single point where this can be done.
>
> In fact, holding the signal spinlock was seen as a bonus, since that
> was used to serialize the access to the signal->autogroup access.
> Which I think is required.
>
> But yes, it does create problems for the allocation. It could be done
> as just a GFP_ATOMIC, of course, and on allocation failure you'd just
> punt and not do it. Not pretty, but functional.
>

Yeah, I didn't look any deeper than kernel/sched.c::sched_create_group,
but that would need to GFP_ATOMIC as well.

Looking at it now, so would alloc_rt_sched_group/alloc_fair_sched_group,
and we're looking at an awful lot of sleepless allocations. Not sure
that's a feasible plan.

--Kyle


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