On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 10:06 AM Alexander Duyck
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Provide a new function, queue_work_node, which is meant to schedule work on
> a "random" CPU of the requested NUMA node. The main motivation for this is
> to help assist asynchronous init to better improve boot times for devices
> that are local to a specific node.
>
> For now we just default to the first CPU that is in the intersection of the
> cpumask of the node and the online cpumask. The only exception is if the
> CPU is local to the node we will just use the current CPU. This should work
> for our purposes as we are currently only using this for unbound work so
> the CPU will be translated to a node anyway instead of being directly used.
>
> As we are only using the first CPU to represent the NUMA node for now I am
> limiting the scope of the function so that it can only be used with unbound
> workqueues.
>
> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
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