mm: NUMA aware alloc_task_struct_node()
authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Tue, 22 Mar 2011 23:30:41 +0000 (16:30 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:44:01 +0000 (17:44 -0700)
commit504f52b5439aaf26d3e2c1d45ec10fce38c8dd27
treecb46d72c50e843c36540c88ef8c9000dff31c1c8
parent9d502c1c8d47b337c378c2ac8eaeee7918ad16b1
mm: NUMA aware alloc_task_struct_node()

All kthreads being created from a single helper task, they all use memory
from a single node for their kernel stack and task struct.

This patch suite creates kthread_create_on_cpu(), adding a 'cpu' parameter
to parameters already used by kthread_create().

This parameter serves in allocating memory for the new kthread on its
memory node if available.

Users of this new function are : ksoftirqd, kworker, migration, pktgend...

This patch:

Add a node parameter to alloc_task_struct(), and change its name to
alloc_task_struct_node()

This change is needed to allow NUMA aware kthread_create_on_cpu()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
arch/frv/include/asm/processor.h
arch/frv/kernel/process.c
arch/ia64/include/asm/thread_info.h
arch/um/include/asm/processor-generic.h
kernel/fork.c