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mm: NUMA aware alloc_task_struct_node()

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All kthreads being created from a single helper task, they all use memory
from a single node for their kernel stack and task struct.

This patch suite creates kthread_create_on_cpu(), adding a 'cpu' parameter
to parameters already used by kthread_create().

This parameter serves in allocating memory for the new kthread on its
memory node if available.

Users of this new function are : ksoftirqd, kworker, migration, pktgend...

This patch:

Add a node parameter to alloc_task_struct(), and change its name to
alloc_task_struct_node()

This change is needed to allow NUMA aware kthread_create_on_cpu()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <[email protected]>
Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Cc: Tony Luck <[email protected]>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <[email protected]>
Cc: David Howells <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Eric Dumazet 2011-03-22 16:30:41 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
commit 504f52b543
5 changed files with 19 additions and 9 deletions
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arch/um/include/asm/processor-generic.h
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@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ struct thread_struct {
.request = { 0 } \
}
extern struct task_struct *alloc_task_struct(void);
extern struct task_struct *alloc_task_struct_node(int node);
static inline void release_thread(struct task_struct *task)
{