The patch titled watchdog: NUMA affine kthreads has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is watchdog-numa-affine-kthreads.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: watchdog: NUMA affine kthreads From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx> watchdog kthreads can use kthread_create_on_node() to NUMA affine their stack and task_struct. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/watchdog.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN kernel/watchdog.c~watchdog-numa-affine-kthreads kernel/watchdog.c --- a/kernel/watchdog.c~watchdog-numa-affine-kthreads +++ a/kernel/watchdog.c @@ -439,7 +439,8 @@ static int watchdog_enable(int cpu) /* create the watchdog thread */ if (!p) { - p = kthread_create(watchdog, (void *)(unsigned long)cpu, "watchdog/%d", cpu); + p = kthread_create_on_node(watchdog, NULL, cpu_to_node(cpu), + "watchdog/%d", cpu); if (IS_ERR(p)) { printk(KERN_ERR "softlockup watchdog for %i failed\n", cpu); if (!err) { _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx are origin.patch linux-next.patch watchdog-numa-affine-kthreads.patch lib-stringc-introduce-memchr_inv.patch lib-crc-add-slice-by-8-algorithm-to-crc32c.patch lib-crc-add-slice-by-8-algorithm-to-crc32c-fix.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html