Re: [PATCH repost] sched: export sched_set/getaffinity to modules

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On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 14:34 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 15:23 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > 
> > The patch using this is here:
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg35411.html
> > 
> > It simply copies the affinity from the parent when thread is created.
> 
> Sounds like policy, not something the kernel should do..

The alternative would be using clone() instead of thread_create() and
inherit everything from the creating task. Inheriting from kthreadd and
then undoing some aspects just sounds like daft policy that really ought
to be in userspace.
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