Re: [PATCH] kthread: Don't looking for a task in create_kthread()#2

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Tue Jan 20 2009 - 10:03:15 EST


On 01/20, Vitaliy Gusev wrote:
>
> On 20 January 2009 15:06:42 Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> >
> > BTW. Perhaps it also makes sense to move sched_setscheduler/etc code
> > from create_kthread() to kthread_create(), what do you think?
>
> I don't thinks so. create_kthread() is executed in kthreadd process and
> sched_setscheduler/etc preparation things are reflected to kthreadd's CPU usage.
> In other words it is a kthreadd matter, start and setup a thread.

can't understand...

Perhaps I missed something, but from the correctness pov it doesn't
matter who does sched_setscheduler/etc (except _nocheck() would be
better). However it does matter from the scalability pov, we should
move as much as possible from create_kthread() because we have a
single process with executes the "create" requests.

OK, please forget. This reminds me kthread.c needs a major rework
anyway, hopefully I'll try to do this soon.

Oleg.

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