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

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Nov 28 2013 - 09:44:17 EST


On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 03:31:45PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Sure, we absolutely must set it for per-cpu workqueues (and their
> workers) otherwise we cannot guarantee correctness. Same for per-node if
> we have that.

On that, the per-node thing is debatable. There's no correctness issues
with per-node stuff as we have with per-cpu storage.

And if there's no correctness implications we should not force things.
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