From 207205a2ba2655652fe46a60b49838af6c16a919 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:30:44 -0700
Subject: 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>
---
 include/linux/sched.h | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

(limited to 'include/linux/sched.h')

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;
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