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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: net: Utility function to get affinity_hint by policy
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From: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 00:24:43 +0200

> All these could be changed dynamically, and since there is no
> protection on this block of code, it is possible that local + non-local
> at point of time t1 will exceed num_online_cpus() at t2.
> Since this is very rare and the fix for that is very complicated, I
> decided not set affinity hint in this scenario, and only return an
> error code.

Ok, fair enough.