[PATCH 1/2] workqueue: Move wq_update_unbound_numa() to the beginning of CPU_ONLINE

Gautham R Shenoy ego at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Jun 22 15:15:21 AEST 2016


On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 09:47:19PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 03:43:56PM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 09:37:09PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > Hurm.. So I've applied it, just to get this issue sorted, but I'm not
> > > entirely sure I like it.
> > > 
> > > I think I prefer ego's version because that makes it harder to get stuff
> > > to run on !active,online cpus. I think we really want to be careful what
> > > gets to run during that state.
> > 
> > The original patch just did set_cpus_allowed one more time late enough
> > so that the target kthread (in most cases) doesn't have to go through
> > fallback rq selection afterwards.  I don't know what the long term
> > solution is but CPU_ONLINE callbacks should be able to bind kthreads
> > to the new CPU one way or the other.
> 
> Fair enough; clearly I need to stare harder. In any case, patch is on
> its way to sched/urgent.

Thanks Tejun, Peter!
> 

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Regards
gautham.



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