On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 02:10:56PM +0000, Christoph Lameter wrote: >> On Thu, 12 Sep 2013, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: >> >> > Why not do this from userspace instead? >> >> Because the cpumasks are hardcoded in the kernel code. >> > > Ok but you can change the affinity of a kthread from userspace, as > long as you define a cpu set that is among that kthread's cpus allowed.
There is also the problem of kernel threads registering timers. We don't have a good way to migrate those yet, I believe. Gilad -- Gilad Ben-Yossef Chief Coffee Drinker [email protected] Israel Cell: +972-52-8260388 US Cell: +1-973-8260388 http://benyossef.com "If you take a class in large-scale robotics, can you end up in a situation where the homework eats your dog?" -- Jean-Baptiste Queru -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
