From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Dumazet Subject: Re: + kthread-numa-aware-kthread_create_on_cpu.patch added to -mm tree Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 21:15:19 +0100 Message-ID: <1295468119.2653.2.camel@edumazet-laptop> References: <201012100044.oBA0ivp3016990@imap1.linux-foundation.org> <1293131522.2170.798.camel@laptop> <20110119120756.cd554fb1.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from mail-fx0-f46.google.com ([209.85.161.46]:35691 "EHLO mail-fx0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752643Ab1ASUPZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jan 2011 15:15:25 -0500 Received: by fxm20 with SMTP id 20so1279967fxm.19 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:15:23 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20110119120756.cd554fb1.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Andrew Morton Cc: Peter Zijlstra , ak@linux.intel.com, davem@davemloft.net, dhowells@redhat.com, fenghua.yu@intel.com, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, tj@kernel.org, tony.luck@intel.com Le mercredi 19 janvier 2011 =C3=A0 12:07 -0800, Andrew Morton a =C3=A9c= rit : > On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 20:12:02 +0100 > Peter Zijlstra wrote: >=20 > > 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[], > > > + ...) > >=20 > > I thought it was agreed that name sucked too much to live? >=20 > I agreed ;) >=20 > > All other *_on_cpu() interfaces actually do stuff on that cpu, but = this > > does not in fact create a cpu affine task. >=20 > The patches are stuck in my tree awaiting some movement here.. Oh well. I wont discuss about a function _name_ Andrew. If nobody can chose one better than the one I chosed, what can I do ?