linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] make schedule_on_each_cpu() look like on_each

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Date:	Thu, 26 Jul 2007 22:30:58 +0400
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make schedule_on_each_cpu() look like on_each_cpu()

On 07/26, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> On 07/26, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> >
> > -int schedule_on_each_cpu(work_func_t func)
> > +int schedule_on_each_cpu(void (*func)(void *info), void *info, int retry, int wait)
> >  {
> >  	int cpu;
> > -	struct work_struct *works;
> > +	struct schedule_on_each_cpu_work **works;
> > +	int err = 0;
> >  
> > -	works = alloc_percpu(struct work_struct);
> > +	works = kzalloc(sizeof(void *)*nr_cpu_ids, GFP_KERNEL);
> 
> Not a comment, but a question: why do we need nr_cpu_ids at all?
> num_possible_cpus() looks more "correct" if cpu_possible_map has
> holes (not sure this can happen in practice).

OOPS, I am stupid, please ignore. Of course, we need the highest CPU
number, not num_possible_cpus().

Oleg.

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