From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Stijn Devriendt <highguy@gmail.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
awalls@radix.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jeff@garzik.org,
mi@jasper.es
Subject: Re: workqueue thing
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:43:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1261557812.4937.118.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c76f371a0912230017n7d3f5c89h849aa23efa6f75e5@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 09:17 +0100, Stijn Devriendt wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
> > One reason I liked a more dynamic frame work for this is that it
> > has the potential to be exposed to user space and allow automatic
> > work partitioning there based on available cores. User space
> > has a lot more CPU consumption than the kernel.
> >
> Basically, this is exactly what I was trying to solve with my
> sched_wait_block patch. It was broken in all ways, but the ultimate
> goal was to have concurrency managed workqueues (to nick the term)
> in userspace and have a way out when I/O hits the workqueue.
Don't we have the problem of wakeup concurrency here?
Forking on blocking is only half the problem (and imho the easy half).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-23 8:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 104+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-18 12:57 Tejun Heo
2009-12-18 12:57 ` [PATCH 01/27] sched: rename preempt_notifiers to sched_notifiers and refactor implementation Tejun Heo
2009-12-18 12:57 ` [PATCH 02/27] sched: refactor try_to_wake_up() Tejun Heo
2009-12-18 12:57 ` [PATCH 03/27] sched: implement __set_cpus_allowed() Tejun Heo
2009-12-18 12:57 ` [PATCH 04/27] sched: make sched_notifiers unconditional Tejun Heo
2009-12-18 12:57 ` [PATCH 05/27] sched: add wakeup/sleep sched_notifiers and allow NULL notifier ops Tejun Heo
2009-12-18 12:57 ` [PATCH 06/27] sched: implement try_to_wake_up_local() Tejun Heo
2009-12-18 12:57 ` [PATCH 07/27] acpi: use queue_work_on() instead of binding workqueue worker to cpu0 Tejun Heo
2009-12-18 12:57 ` [PATCH 08/27] stop_machine: reimplement without using workqueue Tejun Heo
2009-12-18 12:57 ` [PATCH 09/27] workqueue: misc/cosmetic updates Tejun Heo
2009-12-18 12:57 ` [PATCH 10/27] workqueue: merge feature parameters into flags Tejun Heo
2009-12-18 12:57 ` [PATCH 11/27] workqueue: define both bit position and mask for work flags Tejun Heo
2009-12-18 12:57 ` [PATCH 12/27] workqueue: separate out process_one_work() Tejun Heo
2009-12-18 12:57 ` [PATCH 13/27] workqueue: temporarily disable workqueue tracing Tejun Heo
2009-12-18 12:57 ` [PATCH 14/27] workqueue: kill cpu_populated_map Tejun Heo
2009-12-18 12:57 ` [PATCH 15/27] workqueue: update cwq alignement Tejun Heo
2009-12-18 12:57 ` [PATCH 16/27] workqueue: reimplement workqueue flushing using color coded works Tejun Heo
2009-12-18 12:57 ` [PATCH 17/27] workqueue: introduce worker Tejun Heo
2009-12-18 12:57 ` [PATCH 18/27] workqueue: reimplement work flushing using linked works Tejun Heo
2009-12-18 12:58 ` [PATCH 19/27] workqueue: implement per-cwq active work limit Tejun Heo
2009-12-18 12:58 ` [PATCH 20/27] workqueue: reimplement workqueue freeze using max_active Tejun Heo
2009-12-18 12:58 ` [PATCH 21/27] workqueue: introduce global cwq and unify cwq locks Tejun Heo
2009-12-18 12:58 ` [PATCH 22/27] workqueue: implement worker states Tejun Heo
2009-12-18 12:58 ` [PATCH 23/27] workqueue: reimplement CPU hotplugging support using trustee Tejun Heo
2009-12-18 12:58 ` [PATCH 24/27] workqueue: make single thread workqueue shared worker pool friendly Tejun Heo
2009-12-18 12:58 ` [PATCH 25/27] workqueue: use shared worklist and pool all workers per cpu Tejun Heo
2009-12-18 12:58 ` [PATCH 26/27] workqueue: implement concurrency managed dynamic worker pool Tejun Heo
2009-12-18 12:58 ` [PATCH 27/27] workqueue: increase max_active of keventd and kill current_is_keventd() Tejun Heo
2009-12-18 13:00 ` SUBJ: [RFC PATCHSET] concurrency managed workqueue, take#2 Tejun Heo
2009-12-18 13:03 ` Tejun Heo
2009-12-18 13:45 ` workqueue thing Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-18 13:50 ` Andi Kleen
2009-12-18 15:01 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-12-21 3:19 ` Tejun Heo
2009-12-21 9:17 ` Jens Axboe
2009-12-21 10:35 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-21 11:09 ` Andi Kleen
2009-12-21 11:17 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-12-21 11:33 ` Andi Kleen
2009-12-21 13:18 ` Tejun Heo
2009-12-21 11:11 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-12-21 13:22 ` Tejun Heo
2009-12-21 13:53 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-12-21 14:19 ` Tejun Heo
2009-12-21 15:19 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-12-22 0:00 ` Tejun Heo
2009-12-22 11:10 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-22 17:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-12-22 17:47 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-22 18:07 ` Andi Kleen
2009-12-22 18:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-23 8:17 ` Stijn Devriendt
2009-12-23 8:43 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2009-12-23 9:01 ` Stijn Devriendt
2009-12-22 18:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-12-23 8:06 ` Johannes Berg
2009-12-23 3:37 ` Tejun Heo
2009-12-23 6:52 ` Herbert Xu
2009-12-23 8:00 ` Steffen Klassert
2009-12-23 8:01 ` [PATCH 0/2] Parallel crypto/IPsec v7 Steffen Klassert
2009-12-23 8:03 ` [PATCH 1/2] padata: generic parallelization/serialization interface Steffen Klassert
2009-12-23 8:04 ` [PATCH 2/2] crypto: pcrypt - Add pcrypt crypto parallelization wrapper Steffen Klassert
2010-01-07 5:39 ` [PATCH 0/2] Parallel crypto/IPsec v7 Herbert Xu
2010-01-16 9:44 ` David Miller
2009-12-18 15:30 ` workqueue thing Linus Torvalds
2009-12-18 15:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-12-18 15:39 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-18 15:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-12-18 15:53 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-21 3:04 ` Tejun Heo
2009-12-21 9:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-21 13:30 ` Tejun Heo
2009-12-21 14:26 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-21 23:50 ` Tejun Heo
2009-12-22 11:00 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-22 11:03 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-23 3:43 ` Tejun Heo
2009-12-22 11:04 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-23 3:48 ` Tejun Heo
2009-12-22 11:06 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-23 4:18 ` Tejun Heo
2009-12-23 4:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-12-23 6:02 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-12-23 6:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-12-23 7:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-12-23 8:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-23 10:25 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-12-23 13:33 ` Stefan Richter
2009-12-23 14:20 ` Mark Brown
2009-12-23 7:09 ` Tejun Heo
2009-12-23 8:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-12-23 8:12 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-12-23 8:32 ` Tejun Heo
2009-12-23 8:42 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-12-23 8:27 ` Tejun Heo
2009-12-23 8:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-12-23 8:49 ` Tejun Heo
2009-12-23 8:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-12-23 9:03 ` Tejun Heo
2009-12-23 13:40 ` Stefan Richter
2009-12-23 13:43 ` Stefan Richter
2009-12-23 8:25 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-12-23 13:00 ` Stefan Richter
2009-12-23 8:31 ` Stijn Devriendt
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=1261557812.4937.118.camel@laptop \
--to=peterz@infradead.org \
--cc=andi@firstfloor.org \
--cc=arjan@linux.intel.com \
--cc=awalls@radix.net \
--cc=highguy@gmail.com \
--cc=jeff@garzik.org \
--cc=jens.axboe@oracle.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=mi@jasper.es \
--cc=tj@kernel.org \
--cc=torvalds@linux-foundation.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox
all inboxes | Powered by JetHome®