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authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>2011-06-16 15:53:18 -0700
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2011-09-28 21:36:33 -0700
commit1f288094807861ec1e48c428d2c49ccf7aaf3767 (patch)
treef8f1217bcf0a720d6ae17304b1bcb3ddbecb42be /kernel
parenta102a9ece5489e1718cd7543aa079082450ac3a2 (diff)
rcu: Use kthread_create_on_node()
Commit a26ac2455ffc (move TREE_RCU from softirq to kthread) added per-CPU kthreads. However, kthread creation uses kthread_create(), which can put the kthread's stack and task struct on the wrong NUMA node. Therefore, use kthread_create_on_node() instead of kthread_create() so that the stacks and task structs are placed on the correct NUMA node. A similar change was carried out in commit 94dcf29a11b3 (kthread: use kthread_create_on_node()). Also change rcutorture's priority-boost-test kthread creation. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> CC: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> CC: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> CC: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/rcutorture.c5
-rw-r--r--kernel/rcutree_plugin.h5
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcutorture.c b/kernel/rcutorture.c
index 98f51b13bb7e..1d2415046154 100644
--- a/kernel/rcutorture.c
+++ b/kernel/rcutorture.c
@@ -1280,8 +1280,9 @@ static int rcutorture_booster_init(int cpu)
/* Don't allow time recalculation while creating a new task. */
mutex_lock(&boost_mutex);
VERBOSE_PRINTK_STRING("Creating rcu_torture_boost task");
- boost_tasks[cpu] = kthread_create(rcu_torture_boost, NULL,
- "rcu_torture_boost");
+ boost_tasks[cpu] = kthread_create_on_node(rcu_torture_boost, NULL,
+ cpu_to_node(cpu),
+ "rcu_torture_boost");
if (IS_ERR(boost_tasks[cpu])) {
retval = PTR_ERR(boost_tasks[cpu]);
VERBOSE_PRINTK_STRING("rcu_torture_boost task create failed");
diff --git a/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
index 8aafbb80b8b0..7b850cdc0aee 100644
--- a/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
+++ b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
@@ -1560,7 +1560,10 @@ static int __cpuinit rcu_spawn_one_cpu_kthread(int cpu)
if (!rcu_scheduler_fully_active ||
per_cpu(rcu_cpu_kthread_task, cpu) != NULL)
return 0;
- t = kthread_create(rcu_cpu_kthread, (void *)(long)cpu, "rcuc%d", cpu);
+ t = kthread_create_on_node(rcu_cpu_kthread,
+ (void *)(long)cpu,
+ cpu_to_node(cpu),
+ "rcuc%d", cpu);
if (IS_ERR(t))
return PTR_ERR(t);
if (cpu_online(cpu))