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All kthreads being created from a single helper task, they all use memory from a single node for their kernel stack and task struct. This patch suite creates kthread_create_on_cpu(), adding a 'cpu' parameter to parameters already used by kthread_create(). This parameter serves in allocating memory for the new kthread on its memory node if available. Users of this new function are : ksoftirqd, kworker, migration, pktgend... This patch: Add a node parameter to alloc_task_struct(), and change its name to alloc_task_struct_node() This change is needed to allow NUMA aware kthread_create_on_cpu() Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]> Acked-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <[email protected]> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <[email protected]> Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Cc: Tony Luck <[email protected]> Cc: Fenghua Yu <[email protected]> Cc: David Howells <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>