Re: [PATCH 3/4] 2.6.2-rc2-mm2 CPU Hotplug: The Core

[Rusty Russell]

In message <20040203080436.GA374@xxxxxxx> you write:
> 
> * Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > This terminating signal idea is simply flawed: affinity is inherited,
> > so you're killing a process which knows nothing anyway.
> > 
> > If we can't do it well, leave it to userspace to sort out 8)
> 
> yes, but currently there's no mechanism for userspace to get notified -
> hence no clean way for userspace to sort it out. (other than userspace
> continuously polling the CPU mask - bleh.) But this is a separate issue.

We use /sbin/hotplug at the moment.  I'm hoping that DBUS turn this
from "possible" into "easy" some day...

Thanks,
Rusty.
--
  Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.
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