This function makes it easy to bind the per-node knuma_migrated threads to their respective NUMA nodes. Those threads take memory from the other nodes (in round robin with a incoming queue for each remote node) and they move that memory to their local node. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/kthread.h | 1 + kernel/kthread.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/kthread.h b/include/linux/kthread.h index 22ccf9d..5901aad 100644 --- a/include/linux/kthread.h +++ b/include/linux/kthread.h @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ struct task_struct *kthread_create_on_node(int (*threadfn)(void *data), }) void kthread_bind(struct task_struct *k, unsigned int cpu); +void kthread_bind_node(struct task_struct *p, int nid); int kthread_stop(struct task_struct *k); int kthread_should_stop(void); bool kthread_freezable_should_stop(bool *was_frozen); diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c index b579af5..0034e5f 100644 --- a/kernel/kthread.c +++ b/kernel/kthread.c @@ -234,6 +234,27 @@ void kthread_bind(struct task_struct *p, unsigned int cpu) EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_bind); /** + * kthread_bind_node - bind a just-created kthread to the CPUs of a node. + * @p: thread created by kthread_create(). + * @nid: node (might not be online, must be possible) for @k to run on. + * + * Description: This function is equivalent to set_cpus_allowed(), + * except that @nid doesn't need to be online, and the thread must be + * stopped (i.e., just returned from kthread_create()). + */ +void kthread_bind_node(struct task_struct *p, int nid) +{ + /* Must have done schedule() in kthread() before we set_task_cpu */ + if (!wait_task_inactive(p, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE)) { + WARN_ON(1); + return; + } + + /* It's safe because the task is inactive. */ + do_set_cpus_allowed(p, cpumask_of_node(nid)); +} + +/** * kthread_stop - stop a thread created by kthread_create(). * @k: thread created by kthread_create(). * -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>