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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kthread: NUMA aware kthread_create_on_cpu()
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 10:38:52 +0100
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Le lundi 29 novembre 2010 =C3=A0 10:05 +0100, Andi Kleen a =C3=A9crit :
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 12:37:04AM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> > Hmm, I meant stack (the thing that might be trashed a lot in ksofti=
rqd),
> > so it is included in struct thread_info
>=20
> task_struct is quite hot too. Also your original mail said
> task struct i believe.
>=20
> > And got correct stacks. Are you sure we must use PREFERRED ?
>=20
> Yes.

I'll respin a patch not using mempolicy but direct node, for both
thread_info and task_struct allocations.