From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: + kthread-numa-aware-kthread_create_on_cpu.patch added to -mm
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Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 20:12:02 +0100
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On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 16:44 -0800, akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote:
> +struct task_struct *kthread_create_on_cpu(int (*threadfn)(void *data),
> +                                         void *data,
> +                                         int cpu,
> +                                         const char namefmt[],
> +                                         ...)

I thought it was agreed that name sucked too much to live?

All other *_on_cpu() interfaces actually do stuff on that cpu, but this
does not in fact create a cpu affine task.