Re: [PATCH] watchdog: NUMA affine kthreads

[Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 06:44:28PM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> watchdog kthreads can use kthread_create_on_node() to NUMA affine their
> stack and task_struct.

Looks good, I'll apply and test it.

Thanks.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
> CC: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
> CC: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
> ---
>  kernel/watchdog.c |    3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c
> index 36491cd..14cabcd 100644
> --- a/kernel/watchdog.c
> +++ b/kernel/watchdog.c
> @@ -438,7 +438,8 @@ static int watchdog_enable(int cpu)
>  
>  	/* create the watchdog thread */
>  	if (!p) {
> -		p = kthread_create(watchdog, (void *)(unsigned long)cpu, "watchdog/%d", cpu);
> +		p = kthread_create_on_node(watchdog, NULL, cpu_to_node(cpu),
> +					   "watchdog/%d", cpu);
>  		if (IS_ERR(p)) {
>  			printk(KERN_ERR "softlockup watchdog for %i failed\n", cpu);
>  			if (!err) {
> 
>