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Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/40] autonuma: introduce kthread_bind_node()
From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 18:04:17 +0200
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On Fri, 2012-06-29 at 11:36 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On 06/28/2012 08:55 AM, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>=20
> > --- a/include/linux/sched.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/sched.h
> > @@ -1792,7 +1792,7 @@ extern void thread_group_times(struct task_struct=
 *p, cputime_t *ut, cputime_t *
> >   #define PF_SWAPWRITE	0x00800000	/* Allowed to write to swap */
> >   #define PF_SPREAD_PAGE	0x01000000	/* Spread page cache over cpuset */
> >   #define PF_SPREAD_SLAB	0x02000000	/* Spread some slab caches over cpu=
set */
> > -#define PF_THREAD_BOUND	0x04000000	/* Thread bound to specific cpu */
> > +#define PF_THREAD_BOUND	0x04000000	/* Thread bound to specific cpus */
> >   #define PF_MCE_EARLY    0x08000000      /* Early kill for mce process=
 policy */
> >   #define PF_MEMPOLICY	0x10000000	/* Non-default NUMA mempolicy */
> >   #define PF_MUTEX_TESTER	0x20000000	/* Thread belongs to the rt mutex =
tester */
>=20
> Changing the semantics of PF_THREAD_BOUND without so much as
> a comment in your changelog or buy-in from the scheduler
> maintainers is a big no-no.

In fact I've already said a number of times this patch isn't going
anywhere.


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