Re: cpuset attach_task to touch per-cpu kernel threads?

[Ingo Molnar]

* Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> But I am wondering if attach_task() should leave kernel threads alone 
> and act only upon user-space threads. Or maybe allow movement if it 
> doesn't result in changing kernel-threads's cpu affinity.

yeah, i'd agree with the latter. We could also special-case the 
migration thread to never be migrated itself. (although that's not the 
end of the matter either - two ksoftirqds on a cpu are not healty)

	Ingo
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