Re: [PATCH]: exec: avoid propagating PF_NO_SETAFFINITY intouserspace child

[Tejun Heo]

On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 03:55:05PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Because that is exactly what some users desire? Some RT and HPC people
> want all those crypt jobs to run on a few designated cpus and not wreck
> their compute jobs.

And you can't do that reliably from userland.  Those things are
created dynamically.  workqueue provides per-workqueue attributes to
enable those use cases.  It doesn't have system-wide default
attributes right now but adding that shouldn't be too difficult.

-- 
tejun
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