On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 02:48:28PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > Why whould you want to pin khugpeaged? Is there a valid use-case? > Looks like userspace shoots to its leg. Its just bad design to put so much work in another context. But the use-case is isolating other cpus. > Is there a reason why we should respect cpuset limitation for kernel > threads? Yes, because we want to allow isolating CPUs from 'random' activity. > Should we bypass cpuset for PF_KTHREAD completely? No. That'll break stuff. -- 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>