On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:13:21PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > pci_call_probe() uses work_on_cpu(), which creates and tears down a > > full kthread on each call, to invoke ->probe() on node local CPU for > > allocation affinity. > > > > The same goal can easily be achieved using a work item. This patch > > rewrites pci_call_probe() so that it uses a work item instead of > > work_on_cpu(). > > > > Note that the function is restructured for simplicity. This adds > > get/put_online_cpus() pair for devices without node but the overhead > > of doing so isn't anything material at this level. > > > > Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> > > I applied this to my "next" branch and pushed it. Thanks! Can you please drop / revert this one? It seems we need work_on_cpu() after all and I'm gonna reimplement it in sane way. Sorry about the trouble. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html