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 -- 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/
