From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 22 May 2002 18:28:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 22 May 2002 18:28:04 -0400 Received: from lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.1]:18697 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 22 May 2002 18:28:02 -0400 Subject: Re: PATCH Multithreaded core dumps for the 2.5.17 kernel was ....RE: PATCH Multithreaded core dump support for the 2.5.14 (aO To: mgross@unix-os.sc.intel.com Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 23:07:24 +0100 (BST) Cc: pavel@suse.cz (Pavel Machek), vamsi_krishna@in.ibm.com (Vamsi Krishna S.), mark.gross@intel.com (Gross Mark), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, r1vamsi@in.ibm.com In-Reply-To: <200205222043.g4MKhsw06808@unix-os.sc.intel.com> from "Mark Gross" at May 22, 2002 01:43:31 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > I think that although my tcore_suspend_threads and Pavel's freeze_processes > have similar results, I don't think using Pavel's approach for the core dump > is a good idea. Migrating a task to a specific processor is also remarkably related. How does it wash out if the suspend thread/freeze process stuff works by migrating all the processes to a CPU that doesnt exist ?