Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270092AbTGaXKk (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2003 19:10:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270576AbTGaXKk (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2003 19:10:40 -0400 Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com ([12.44.186.158]:55798 "EHLO hermes.mvista.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270092AbTGaXKg (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2003 19:10:36 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] protect migration/%d etc from sched_setaffinity From: Robert Love To: Joe Korty Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@digeo.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20030731230635.GA7852@rudolph.ccur.com> References: <20030731224604.GA24887@tsunami.ccur.com> <1059692548.931.329.camel@localhost> <20030731230635.GA7852@rudolph.ccur.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1059693499.786.1.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.3 (1.4.3-5) Date: 31 Jul 2003 16:18:19 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 720 Lines: 19 On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 16:06, Joe Korty wrote: > It's not all system daemons, just some of them that need protection. > > Keeping the set of locked-down daemons to the smallest possible is > important when one wants to 'set aside' cpus for use only by > specific, need-the-lowest-latency-possible realtime applications. Yah, I know. But this is a lot of code just to prevent root from hanging herself, and she has plenty of other ways with which to do that. Robert Love - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/