netdev - Re: net: Utility function to get affinity

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Message-Id: <20140306.173449.1703210385202256497.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 06 Mar 2014 17:34:49 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	amirv@...lanox.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, yevgenyp@...lanox.com,
	ogerlitz@...lanox.com, prarit@...hat.com, gvaradar@...co.com
Subject: Re: net: Utility function to get affinity_hint by policy

From: Amir Vadai <amirv@...lanox.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 00:24:43 +0200

> All these could be changed dynamically, and since there is no
> protection on this block of code, it is possible that local + non-local
> at point of time t1 will exceed num_online_cpus() at t2.
> Since this is very rare and the fix for that is very complicated, I
> decided not set affinity hint in this scenario, and only return an
> error code.

Ok, fair enough.
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