Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Sep 2013 13:45:55 +0000 | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Restrict kernel spawning of threads to a specified set of cpus. |
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On Thu, 12 Sep 2013, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> So yeah it's a problem in theory. Now in practice, I have yet to be convinced because > this should be solved after a few iterations in /proc in most cases.
I have seen some drivers regularly spawning threads all over the machnine. This is a practical issue that I am addresing. > > Now the issue doesn't only concern kthreads but all tasks in the system. > If we really want to solve that race, then may be we can think of a kernel_parameter > that sets the initial affinity of init and then lets get it naturally inherited > through the whole tree.
This patch that we are discussing does exactly that.
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