On 11/18/2010 04:09 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
But mainly because we're taking the work accounting away from the user
who caused it and crediting it to the kernel thread instead, and that's
an actively *bad* thing to do.
That's happening more and more with workqueues and kernel threads.
We need the ability for a kernel thread (perhaps a workqueue thread) to
say "I am doing this on behalf of thread X, please charge any costs I
incur (faults, cpu time, whatever) to that thread".
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