Re: [PATCH 1/1] usermodehelper: kill____call_usermodehelper()->set_cpus_allowed_ptr()

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Fri Dec 06 2013 - 09:52:53 EST


On 12/05, Christoph Lameter wrote:
>
> On Thu, 5 Dec 2013, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> > Perhaps, I simply do not know what the users want.
>
> We would like to control OS spawning of threads and restrict them to a
> limited set of cpus so that the other processors can do latency sensitive
> work without being impacted by creation of kernel threads etc.

This probably means that Tejun's "default attributes which are inherited
by all workqueues" suggestion was right.

Oleg.

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