On 2012-12-06 19:01, Tejun Heo wrote: > As for the original patch, I think it's a bit too much to expose to > userland. It's probably a good idea to bind the flusher to the local > node but do we really need to expose an interface to let userland > control the affinity directly? Do we actually have a use case at > hand? We need to expose it. Once the binding is set from the kernel side on a kernel thread, it can't be modified. Binding either for performance reasons or for ensuring that we explicitly don't run in some places is a very useful feature. -- Jens Axboe -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>