From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752715AbcFOQBf (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jun 2016 12:01:35 -0400 Received: from mail-qk0-f193.google.com ([209.85.220.193]:34180 "EHLO mail-qk0-f193.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751614AbcFOQBd (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jun 2016 12:01:33 -0400 Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 12:01:12 -0400 From: Tejun Heo To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Gautham R Shenoy , Thomas Gleixner , Michael Ellerman , Abdul Haleem , Aneesh Kumar , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] workqueue:Fix affinity of an unbound worker of a node with 1 online CPU Message-ID: <20160615160112.GC24102@mtj.duckdns.org> References: <20160614112234.GF30154@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20160615101936.GA31671@in.ibm.com> <20160615113249.GH30909@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20160615125033.GB31671@in.ibm.com> <20160615131415.GI30909@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160615131415.GI30909@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.1 (2016-04-27) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 03:14:15PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 06:20:33PM +0530, Gautham R Shenoy wrote: > > We will no longer have the optimization in > > restore_unbound_workers_cpumask() but I suppose we don't lose much by > > resetting the affinity every time a CPU in the pool->attr->cpumask > > comes online. > > Right; optimizing hotplug really isn't worth it. The code needs to be > simple and robust (ha! funny). The only case it might matter is CPU hotplug being used aggressively for power saving. No idea how popular that is now tho. set_cpus_allowed isn't that expensive and phones don't tend to have massive number of kworkers, so hopefully it won't show up. > In any case, Tejun, does this work for you? I'm not sure about the reordering part but for setting affinity on each onlining, no objection. If it ever shows up as performance / power regression, we can revisit it later. Thanks. -- tejun