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In message <Pine.LNX.4.44.0401062314070.1030-100000@bigblue.dev.mdolabs.com> you write:
> On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Rusty Russell wrote:
>
> > Latest version of patch, and code which uses it. It's actually quite
> > neat now. Changes since first version:
>
> Yes, I like this better. Without any doubt, the removal of sync'd start
> function simplified things a lot.

Yeah, I thought you would: makes our previous debates moot so we can
be friends again 8)

The reason I did the startfn thing originally is for the hotplug CPU
code: I wanted to make sure the thread gets onto the CPU while we're
in the notifier, so it doesn't go down again before the thread does
set_cpus_allowed(). Not a problem in practice, but it's nice to have
the BUG_ON(smp_processor_id() != cpu) in the code.

kthread_bind() solves this neatly, and we need it for migration_thread
anyway (which is the one thread where being on the right CPU effects
correctness, not just performance).

Cheers!
Rusty.
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