Re: [PATCH 08/21] scheduler: implement force_cpus_allowed_ptr()

Tejun Heo
2009-11-17T05:19:41Z

11/17/2009 02:14 PM, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:45:13 am Tejun Heo wrote:
>> Implement force_cpus_allowed_ptr() which is similar to
>> set_cpus_allowed_ptr() but bypasses PF_THREAD_BOUND check and ignores
>> cpu_active() status as long as the target cpu is online. This will be
>> used for concurrency-managed workqueue.
>
> Can we drop the silly _ptr() postfix? It was a hack someone added to
> avoid churning set_cpus_allowed(), and no need to repeat here.

Yeah, it's an ugly name. I'll drop it from the new function.

Thanks.

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tejun