Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 08/35] autonuma: introduce kthread_bind_node() | | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | | Date | Tue, 29 May 2012 19:48:06 +0200 |
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On Tue, 2012-05-29 at 19:44 +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > But it'd be totally bad not to do the hard bindings to the cpu_s_ of > the node, and not using PF_THREAD_BOUND would just allow userland to > shoot itself in the foot. I mean if PF_THREAD_BOUND wouldn't exist > already I wouldn't add it, but considering somebody bothered to > implement it for the sake to make userland root user "safer", it'd be > really silly not to take advantage of that for knuma_migrated too > (even if it binds to more than 1 CPU).
No, I'm absolutely ok with the user shooting himself in the foot. The thing exists because you can crash stuff if you get it wrong with per-cpu.
Crashing is not good, worse performance is his own damn fault.
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