Re: [PATCH] workqueue: remove the confusing POOL_FREEZING

[Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>]

Hello,

On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 07:01:16PM +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
> While freezing takes place globally, its execution is per-workqueue;
> however, the current implementation makes use of the per-worker_pool
> POOL_FREEZING flag.  While it's not broken, the flag makes the code
> more confusing and complicates freeze_workqueues_begin() and
> thaw_workqueues() by requiring them to walk through all pools.
> 
> So we remove the POOL_FREEZING and use workqueue_freezing instead.

Misses the part which explains how the middle step is unnecessary.  I
used the following text instead.

    workqueue: remove the confusing POOL_FREEZING
    
    Currently, the global freezing state is propagated to worker_pools via
    POOL_FREEZING and then to each workqueue; however, the middle step -
    propagation through worker_pools - can be skipped as long as one or
    more max_active adjustments happens for each workqueue after the
    update to the global state is visible.  The global workqueue freezing
    state and the max_active adjustments during workqueue creation and
    [un]freezing are serialized with wq_pool_mutex, so it's trivial to
    guarantee that max_actives stay in sync with global freezing state.
    
    POOL_FREEZING is unnecessary and makes the code more confusing and
    complicates freeze_workqueues_begin() and thaw_workqueues() by
    requiring them to walk through all pools.
    
    Remove POOL_FREEZING and use workqueue_freezing directly instead.


Applied to wq/for-3.16.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun