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| author | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-09-04 15:42:42 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-09-04 16:54:41 -0700 |
| commit | e9f069868d60550c4b46f084ac9276a57c1b4711 (patch) | |
| tree | f2b2146fdd2aebab3130c66815fddbd71ce3249a /kernel/kthread.c | |
| parent | 04697858d89e4bf2650364f8d6956e2554e8ef88 (diff) | |
kernel/kthread.c:kthread_create_on_node(): clarify documentation
- Make it clear that the `node' arg refers to memory allocations only:
kthread_create_on_node() does not pin the new thread to that node's
CPUs.
- Encourage the use of NUMA_NO_NODE.
[nzimmer@sgi.com: use NUMA_NO_NODE in kthread_create() also]
Cc: Nathan Zimmer <nzimmer@sgi.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/kthread.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/kthread.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c index 490924cc9e7c..9ff173dca1ae 100644 --- a/kernel/kthread.c +++ b/kernel/kthread.c @@ -248,15 +248,16 @@ static void create_kthread(struct kthread_create_info *create) * kthread_create_on_node - create a kthread. * @threadfn: the function to run until signal_pending(current). * @data: data ptr for @threadfn. - * @node: memory node number. + * @node: task and thread structures for the thread are allocated on this node * @namefmt: printf-style name for the thread. * * Description: This helper function creates and names a kernel * thread. The thread will be stopped: use wake_up_process() to start - * it. See also kthread_run(). + * it. See also kthread_run(). The new thread has SCHED_NORMAL policy and + * is affine to all CPUs. * * If thread is going to be bound on a particular cpu, give its node - * in @node, to get NUMA affinity for kthread stack, or else give -1. + * in @node, to get NUMA affinity for kthread stack, or else give NUMA_NO_NODE. * When woken, the thread will run @threadfn() with @data as its * argument. @threadfn() can either call do_exit() directly if it is a * standalone thread for which no one will call kthread_stop(), or |