From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wei Liu Subject: [PATCH 1/8] netback: don't bind kthread to cpu Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 16:00:02 +0000 Message-ID: <1360944010-15336-2-git-send-email-wei.liu2@citrix.com> References: <1360944010-15336-1-git-send-email-wei.liu2@citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Wei Liu To: , , , , Return-path: Received: from smtp.citrix.com ([66.165.176.89]:27169 "EHLO SMTP.CITRIX.COM" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756350Ab3BOQAy (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Feb 2013 11:00:54 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1360944010-15336-1-git-send-email-wei.liu2@citrix.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: The initialization process makes an assumption that the online cpus are numbered from 0 to xen_netbk_group_nr-1, which is not always true. As we only need a pool of worker threads, simply don't bind them to specific cpus. Signed-off-by: Wei Liu --- drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c b/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c index 3ae49b1..db8d45a 100644 --- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c +++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c @@ -1729,8 +1729,6 @@ static int __init netback_init(void) goto failed_init; } - kthread_bind(netbk->task, group); - INIT_LIST_HEAD(&netbk->net_schedule_list); spin_lock_init(&netbk->net_schedule_list_lock); -- 1.7.10.4