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From: Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@windriver.com>
To: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>,
	David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
Cc: '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 10:32:51 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <76fa0270-40c5-aac7-1c53-38384fa3467d@windriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200326162218.GB3946@lenoir>

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".

Chris

  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-26 16:32 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 [this message]
2020-03-26 16:51               ` Frederic Weisbecker

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