linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] work_on_cpu: use in drivers/pci/pci-driver.c

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Date:	Tue, 9 Dec 2008 14:52:48 -0800
From:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
To:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] work_on_cpu: use in drivers/pci/pci-driver.c

On Monday, December 01, 2008 12:20 am Rusty Russell wrote:
> This uses work_on_cpu(), rather than altering the cpumask of the
> thread which we happen to be.
>
> Note the cleanups:
>
> 1) I've removed the CONFIG_NUMA test, since dev_to_node() returns -1
>    for !CONFIG_NUMA anyway and the compiler will eliminate it.
>
> 2) No need to reset mempolicy to default (a bad idea anyway) since
>    work_on_cpu is run from a workqueue.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
> Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>

Nice, I applied this to my linux-next branch to get some build/test coverage.  
Please cc linux-pci in the future though.

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Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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