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Date:	Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:02:41 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] kthread: NUMA aware kthread_create_on_cpu()

Le jeudi 09 décembre 2010 à 22:32 -0800, Andrew Morton a écrit :

> but but but.  The name "kthread_create_on_cpu" sucks.  It's plain wrong.

Okay you are right Andrew ;) I dont have better idea for the moment.

Note that all callers I converted really create one kthread per cpu, not
per node. They didnt care of node affinity, only me :)

kthread_create_on_node() seems misleading to me (some cpus run on
memoryless nodes)



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