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SubjectRe: [driver-core PATCH v6 2/9] async: Add support for queueing on specific NUMA node
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On Thu, 2018-11-08 at 10:06 -0800, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> Introduce four new variants of the async_schedule_ functions that allow
> scheduling on a specific NUMA node.
>
> The first two functions are async_schedule_near and
> async_schedule_near_domain end up mapping to async_schedule and
> async_schedule_domain, but provide NUMA node specific functionality. They
> replace the original functions which were moved to inline function
> definitions that call the new functions while passing NUMA_NO_NODE.
>
> The second two functions are async_schedule_dev and
> async_schedule_dev_domain which provide NUMA specific functionality when
> passing a device as the data member and that device has a NUMA node other
> than NUMA_NO_NODE.
>
> The main motivation behind this is to address the need to be able to
> schedule device specific init work on specific NUMA nodes in order to
> improve performance of memory initialization.

Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>

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