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authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>2011-03-22 16:30:44 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-03-22 17:44:01 -0700
commit207205a2ba2655652fe46a60b49838af6c16a919 (patch)
tree4309aa7cd5cf39c805219001e0ed8ec5b71e4d5e /include
parentb6a84016bd2598e35ead635147fa53619982648d (diff)
kthread: NUMA aware kthread_create_on_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_node(), 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 possible. 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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/kthread.h14
-rw-r--r--include/linux/sched.h1
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kthread.h b/include/linux/kthread.h
index 7ff16f7d3ed4..1e923e5e88e8 100644
--- a/include/linux/kthread.h
+++ b/include/linux/kthread.h
@@ -4,10 +4,15 @@
#include <linux/err.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
-struct task_struct *kthread_create(int (*threadfn)(void *data),
- void *data,
- const char namefmt[], ...)
- __attribute__((format(printf, 3, 4)));
+struct task_struct *kthread_create_on_node(int (*threadfn)(void *data),
+ void *data,
+ int node,
+ const char namefmt[], ...)
+ __attribute__((format(printf, 4, 5)));
+
+#define kthread_create(threadfn, data, namefmt, arg...) \
+ kthread_create_on_node(threadfn, data, -1, namefmt, ##arg)
+
/**
* kthread_run - create and wake a thread.
@@ -34,6 +39,7 @@ void *kthread_data(struct task_struct *k);
int kthreadd(void *unused);
extern struct task_struct *kthreadd_task;
+extern int tsk_fork_get_node(struct task_struct *tsk);
/*
* Simple work processor based on kthread.
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index c15936fe998b..4b601be3dace 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1471,6 +1471,7 @@ struct task_struct {
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
struct mempolicy *mempolicy; /* Protected by alloc_lock */
short il_next;
+ short pref_node_fork;
#endif
atomic_t fs_excl; /* holding fs exclusive resources */
struct rcu_head rcu;