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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] kthread: NUMA aware kthread_create_on_cpu()
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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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