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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 12:18:29 -0700
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Alexei Potashnik <alexei@purestorage.com>
Cc: tj@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] workqueue: doc change for ST behavior on NUMA systems
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On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 11:12:53AM -0700, Alexei Potashnik wrote:
> NUMA rework of workqueue made the combination of max_active of 1 and
> WQ_UNBOUND insufficient to guarantee ST behavior system wide.
> 
> alloc_ordered_queue should now be used instead.

Eww.  And how many existing users might be broken by that?