From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Lai Jiangshan <laijs@linux.alibaba.com>,
Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>,
Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>,
Qian Cai <cai@redhat.com>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Vincent Donnefort <vincent.donnefort@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] workqueue: break affinity initiatively
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2020 09:30:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <X9oZ79F+xB7NMsUt@mtj.duckdns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201214155457.3430-1-jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 11:54:47PM +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
> From: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@linux.alibaba.com>
>
> 06249738a41a ("workqueue: Manually break affinity on hotplug")
> said that scheduler will not force break affinity for us.
>
> But workqueue highly depends on the old behavior. Many parts of the codes
> relies on it, 06249738a41a ("workqueue: Manually break affinity on hotplug")
> is not enough to change it, and the commit has flaws in itself too.
>
> We need to thoroughly update the way workqueue handles affinity
> in cpu hot[un]plug, what is this patchset intends to do and
> replace the Valentin Schneider's patch [1].
>
> Patch 1 fixes a flaw reported by Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>.
> I have to include this fix because later patches depends on it.
>
> The patchset is based on tip/master rather than workqueue tree,
> because the patchset is a complement for 06249738a41a ("workqueue:
> Manually break affinity on hotplug") which is only in tip/master by now.
>
> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ff62e3ee994efb3620177bf7b19fab16f4866845.camel@redhat.com
Generally looks good to me. Please feel free to add
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
and route the series through tip.
Thanks.
--
tejun
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-16 14:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-14 15:54 Lai Jiangshan
2020-12-14 15:54 ` [PATCH 01/10] workqueue: restore unbound_workers' cpumask correctly Lai Jiangshan
2020-12-14 15:54 ` [PATCH 02/10] workqueue: use cpu_possible_mask instead of cpu_active_mask to break affinity Lai Jiangshan
2020-12-14 17:25 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-12-15 8:33 ` Lai Jiangshan
2020-12-15 8:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-12-16 14:32 ` Tejun Heo
2020-12-14 15:54 ` [PATCH 03/10] workqueue: Manually break affinity on pool detachment Lai Jiangshan
2020-12-14 15:54 ` [PATCH 04/10] workqueue: don't set the worker's cpumask when kthread_bind_mask() Lai Jiangshan
2020-12-16 14:39 ` Tejun Heo
2020-12-14 15:54 ` [PATCH 05/10] workqueue: introduce wq_online_cpumask Lai Jiangshan
2020-12-14 15:54 ` [PATCH 06/10] workqueue: use wq_online_cpumask in restore_unbound_workers_cpumask() Lai Jiangshan
2020-12-14 15:54 ` [PATCH 07/10] workqueue: Manually break affinity on hotplug for unbound pool Lai Jiangshan
2020-12-16 14:50 ` Tejun Heo
2020-12-14 15:54 ` [PATCH 08/10] workqueue: reorganize workqueue_online_cpu() Lai Jiangshan
2020-12-14 15:54 ` [PATCH 09/10] workqueue: reorganize workqueue_offline_cpu() unbind_workers() Lai Jiangshan
2020-12-14 15:54 ` [PATCH 10/10] workqueue: Fix affinity of kworkers when attaching into pool Lai Jiangshan
2020-12-15 15:03 ` Valentin Schneider
2020-12-14 17:36 ` [PATCH 00/10] workqueue: break affinity initiatively Peter Zijlstra
2020-12-15 5:44 ` Lai Jiangshan
2020-12-15 7:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-12-15 8:14 ` Lai Jiangshan
2020-12-15 8:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-12-15 9:46 ` Lai Jiangshan
2020-12-16 14:30 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
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