From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753187Ab2LQRA0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Dec 2012 12:00:26 -0500 Received: from mail-pb0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:49972 "EHLO mail-pb0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752941Ab2LQRAX (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Dec 2012 12:00:23 -0500 Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 09:00:16 -0800 From: Tejun Heo To: Jeff Moyer Cc: Jens Axboe , Linus Torvalds , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] core block IO bits for 3.8 Message-ID: <20121217170016.GA2592@htj.dyndns.org> References: <50CF3B82.9000904@kernel.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 11:06:39AM -0500, Jeff Moyer wrote: > Jens Axboe writes: > > > - Export control of bdi flusher thread CPU mask and default to using the > > home node (if known) from Jeff. > > I certainly wouldn't mind this going in, but I think Tejun NACKed this > patch. Tejun? Hmm... yeah, I would much prefer if this doesn't go in this time. I think we need something more generic for threadpools w/ scheduling restrictions. It would be possible to retrofit so that the interface eventually matches but given that this feature isn't an immediate must-have thing, I think it would be better to not do this right now. Thanks. -- tejun