linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] padata: Separate cpumasks for cb

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Date:	Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:03:15 +0200
From:	Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
To:	Dan Kruchinin <kruchinin@...ell.ru>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] padata: Separate cpumasks for cb_cpus and parallel
 workers

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 08:34:15PM +0400, Dan Kruchinin wrote:
> 1) Two separate cpumasks for parallel and serial workers
> 2) padata_alloc does not takes cpumask as its argument, instead
> it uses a default one. __padata_alloc takes two cpumasks as its
> arguments: one for parallel workers and another one for serial.
> 3) I made padata_cpu_hash a public function to reduce code size(in
> several places in pcrypt.c there is near the same code(for getting cpu
> hash) as in padata_cpu_hash)
> 

Plead keep padata_cpu_hash() static to padata. If this becomes
part of the padata API it's not that easy to change it anymore.
You could add a similar function to pcrypt and use this function
there wehenver it's needed.
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