From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Keith Mannthey <kmannth@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][Patch] fix for irq_affinity_write_proc v2.5
Date: 06 May 2003 20:54:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1052250874.1202.162.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1052247789.16886.261.camel@dyn9-47-17-180.beaverton.ibm.com>
On Maw, 2003-05-06 at 20:03, Keith Mannthey wrote:
> Hello,
> irq_affinity_write_proc currently directly calls set_ioapic_affinity
> which writes to the ioapic. This undermines the work done by kirqd by
> writing a cpu mask directly to the ioapic. I propose the following patch
> to tie the /proc affinity writes into the same code path as kirqd.
> Kirqd will enforce the affinity requested by the user.
Why should the kernel be enforcing policy here. You have to be root to
do this, and root should have the ability to configure apparently stupid
things because they may find them useful.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-06 20:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-06 19:03 Keith Mannthey
2003-05-06 19:54 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2003-05-06 21:58 ` Keith Mannthey
2003-05-07 2:27 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-07 12:16 ` Alan Cox
2003-05-07 18:12 ` Keith Mannthey
2003-05-07 3:56 ` Martin J. Bligh
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