Re: [PATCH 3/4] 2.6.2-rc2-mm2 CPU Hotplug: The Core

[Ingo Molnar]

* Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This terminating signal idea is simply flawed: affinity is inherited,
> so you're killing a process which knows nothing anyway.
> 
> If we can't do it well, leave it to userspace to sort out 8)

yes, but currently there's no mechanism for userspace to get notified -
hence no clean way for userspace to sort it out. (other than userspace
continuously polling the CPU mask - bleh.) But this is a separate issue.

	Ingo
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