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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: + kthread-numa-aware-kthread_create_on_cpu.patch added to -mm
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Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:07:56 -0800
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On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 20:12:02 +0100
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> 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?

I agreed ;)

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

The patches are stuck in my tree awaiting some movement here..