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* [PATCH 1/1] kthread: Reduce stack pressure in create_kthread and kthreadd
@ 2008-07-08 22:55 Mike Travis
  2008-07-18 16:47 ` Ingo Molnar
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Mike Travis @ 2008-07-08 22:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ingo Molnar, Andrew Morton; +Cc: LKML

Subject: [PATCH 1/1] kthread: Reduce stack pressure in create_kthread and kthreadd

  * Replace:
  
  	set_cpus_allowed(..., CPU_MASK_ALL)

    with:

  	set_cpus_allowed_ptr(..., CPU_MASK_ALL_PTR)

    to remove excessive stack requirements when NR_CPUS=4096.

Based on linux-2.6.tip/master

Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
---
 kernel/kthread.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- linux-2.6.tip.orig/kernel/kthread.c
+++ linux-2.6.tip/kernel/kthread.c
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ static void create_kthread(struct kthrea
 		 */
 		sched_setscheduler(create->result, SCHED_NORMAL, &param);
 		set_user_nice(create->result, KTHREAD_NICE_LEVEL);
-		set_cpus_allowed(create->result, CPU_MASK_ALL);
+		set_cpus_allowed_ptr(create->result, CPU_MASK_ALL_PTR);
 	}
 	complete(&create->done);
 }
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ int kthreadd(void *unused)
 	set_task_comm(tsk, "kthreadd");
 	ignore_signals(tsk);
 	set_user_nice(tsk, KTHREAD_NICE_LEVEL);
-	set_cpus_allowed(tsk, CPU_MASK_ALL);
+	set_cpus_allowed_ptr(tsk, CPU_MASK_ALL_PTR);
 
 	current->flags |= PF_NOFREEZE;
 

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* Re: [PATCH 1/1] kthread: Reduce stack pressure in create_kthread and kthreadd
  2008-07-08 22:55 [PATCH 1/1] kthread: Reduce stack pressure in create_kthread and kthreadd Mike Travis
@ 2008-07-18 16:47 ` Ingo Molnar
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Ingo Molnar @ 2008-07-18 16:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Mike Travis; +Cc: Andrew Morton, LKML


* Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> wrote:

> Subject: [PATCH 1/1] kthread: Reduce stack pressure in create_kthread and kthreadd
> 
>   * Replace:
>   
>   	set_cpus_allowed(..., CPU_MASK_ALL)
> 
>     with:
> 
>   	set_cpus_allowed_ptr(..., CPU_MASK_ALL_PTR)
> 
>     to remove excessive stack requirements when NR_CPUS=4096.
> 
> Based on linux-2.6.tip/master

applied to tip/core/urgent, thanks Mike.

	Ingo

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