Re: [PATCH 07/39] autonuma: introduce kthread_bind_node()

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Mar 27 2012 - 11:45:57 EST


On Tue, 2012-03-27 at 17:22 +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> I don't see what's wrong with more than 1 CPU in the hard bind
> cpumask.

Because its currently broken, but we're trying to restore its pure
semantic so that we can use it in more places again, like
debug_smp_processor_id(). Testing a single process flag is _much_
cheaper than testing ->cpus_allowed.

Adding more broken isn't an option.
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