Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 17:40:36 +0200
From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 11/17] rcu: Bind grace-period kthreads to
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On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 03:05:56PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> Fair point.  This would be a kthread_bind_housekeeping(), then.

Hmm, after all this should only be needed for kthreads so yeah.

> But I need to create an kthread_bind_mask() or some such that acts like
> kthread_bind(), but which takes a cpumask rather than a cpu.  Easy
> enough to do, but sounds like 3.18 material rather than 3.17 material.
> So this is on my 3.18 list.

Ok sounds good.

Thanks!
 
> 							Thanx, Paul
> 
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