On Sun, 16 Apr 2017, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > I rather like this option of padata, which, since it lives in > kernel/padata.c and linux/padata.h, should be generic and useful for > other components. Seems like the ability to allocate it for a > particular set of worker CPUs and callback CPUs could be useful down > the line. Would rather not see it become static. It's simple enough to export it once there is an actual user. Just keeping stuff global because it might be useful somewhere down the road is really pointless. Thanks, tglx