Re: [PATCH 3/8] Add a PF flag for ksoftirqd identification

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 17:03 -0700, Venkatesh Pallipadi wrote:
> @@ -1234,6 +1234,7 @@ struct task_struct {
>  
>         /* Revert to default priority/policy when forking */
>         unsigned sched_reset_on_fork:1;
> +       unsigned sched_thread_bound:1;  /* Thread bound to specific cpu */
>  
>         pid_t pid;
>         pid_t tgid;
> @@ -1708,7 +1709,7 @@ extern void thread_group_times(struct task_struct *p, cputime_t *ut, cputime_t *
>  #define PF_SWAPWRITE   0x00800000      /* Allowed to write to swap */
>  #define PF_SPREAD_PAGE 0x01000000      /* Spread page cache over cpuset */
>  #define PF_SPREAD_SLAB 0x02000000      /* Spread some slab caches over cpuset */
> -#define PF_THREAD_BOUND        0x04000000      /* Thread bound to specific cpu */
> +#define PF_KSOFTIRQD   0x04000000      /* I am ksoftirqd */ 

No need to do that, there's two free bits, 0x1 and 0x1000 (although this
latter is pending in Andrew's tree).
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