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On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 04:53:21PM +1000, Greg Banks wrote:
> >Check commit 94dcf29a11b3d20a (kthread: use kthread_create_on_node()) to
> >see how this strategy already was adopted for ksoftirqd, kworker,
> >migration, and pktgend kthreads.
> 
> Ah, I see.  It's unfortunate that the kthread_create() API ends up
> being passed a CPU number but that's only used to format the name
> and not for sensible things :(

kthread_create doesn't have a cpu argument - it has a printf-like format
string.