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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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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