Re: [PATCH REPOST v3.9-rc1] sched: replace PF_THREAD_BOUND withPF_NO_SETAFFINITY

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Mon Mar 18 2013 - 12:47:26 EST


Hello,

On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:41:40AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > This patch replaces PF_THREAD_BOUND with PF_NO_SETAFFINITY.
> > sched_setaffinity() checks the flag and return -EINVAL if set.
> > set_cpus_allowed_ptr() is no longer affected by the flag.
> >
> > This will allow simplifying workqueue worker CPU affinity management.
>
> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I suspect you want to carry this in the workqueue tree, to enable those
> extra simplifications?

Yeah, I was planning to pull from one of the -tip branches but if I
can carry it through the workqueue tree it would be simpler. Would
that be okay?

Thanks.

--
tejun
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/