Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Jan 2013 08:54:49 -0800 | From | Josh Triplett <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 05/14] rcu: Distinguish "rcuo" kthreads by RCU flavor |
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On Sat, Jan 05, 2013 at 09:48:55AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> > > Currently, the per-no-CBs-CPU kthreads are named "rcuo" followed by > the CPU number, for example, "rcuo". This is problematic given that
I think the quoted string on this second line wanted to have a CPU number in it.
> there are either two or three RCU flavors, each of which gets a per-CPU > kthread with exactly the same name. This commit therefore introduces > a one-letter abbreviation for each RCU flavor, namely 'b' for RCU-bh, > 'p' for RCU-preempt, and 's' for RCU-sched. This abbreviation use used > to distinguish the "rcuo" kthreads, for example, for CPU 0 we would have > "rcuo0b", "rcuo0p", and "rcuo0s".
Don't per-CPU kthreads normally have a name ending in /$cpunum ?, rather than just $cpunum? For instance, kworker/0, kworker/1, and so on? Seems like these threads should follow that convention.
- Josh Triplett
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