From: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
To: Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@windriver.com>
Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>,
'Marcelo Tosatti' <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
Jim Somerville <Jim.Somerville@windriver.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] isolcpus: affine kernel threads to specified cpumask
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 17:51:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200326165128.GC3946@lenoir> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <76fa0270-40c5-aac7-1c53-38384fa3467d@windriver.com>
On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 10:32:51AM -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
> On 3/26/2020 10:22 AM, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 06:05:27PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
>
> > > How about making it possible to change the default affinity
> > > for new kthreads at run time?
> > > Is it possible to change the affinity of existing threads?
> > > Or maybe only those that didn't specify an explicit one??
> >
> > That's already possible yes, most unbound kthreads are accessible
> > through /proc including kthreadd from which new kthread will inherit
> > their CPU affinity.
>
> Are you sure that the new kthread will inherit the CPU affinity?
>
> __kthread_create_on_node() explicitly sets the new thread as SCHED_NORMAL
> with a mask of "cpu_all_mask".
Ah, ok that's the part I missed. What a weird behaviour...
Anyway, I'm working on making all those isolcpus options
controllable through cpusets. So that should be possible at some
future.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-26 16:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-23 13:54 [PATCH] affine kernel threads to specified cpumask Marcelo Tosatti
2020-03-23 15:29 ` Chris Friesen
2020-03-24 15:07 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2020-03-23 16:22 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-03-23 17:02 ` Chris Friesen
2020-03-23 20:31 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-03-24 11:38 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2020-03-24 15:20 ` [PATCH v2] isolcpus: " Marcelo Tosatti
2020-03-24 15:56 ` Chris Friesen
2020-03-24 16:50 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2020-03-25 0:30 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2020-03-25 11:47 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2020-03-26 16:20 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2020-03-26 16:52 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2020-03-27 12:07 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2020-03-25 18:05 ` David Laight
2020-03-26 11:28 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2020-03-26 16:22 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2020-03-26 16:32 ` Chris Friesen
2020-03-26 16:51 ` Frederic Weisbecker [this message]
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