From: Alexei Potashnik <alexei@purestorage.com>
To: tj@kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] workqueue: doc change for ST behavior on NUMA systems
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 11:12:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aacf48f5db89f6f2336f1a4463ae3a24@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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.
Signed-off-by: Alexei Potashnik <alexei@purestorage.com>
---
Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst | 10 +++++++---
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst
b/Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst
index ffdec94..3943b5b 100644
--- a/Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst
@@ -243,11 +243,15 @@ throttling the number of active work items,
specifying '0' is
recommended.
Some users depend on the strict execution ordering of ST wq. The
-combination of ``@max_active`` of 1 and ``WQ_UNBOUND`` is used to
-achieve this behavior. Work items on such wq are always queued to the
-unbound worker-pools and only one work item can be active at any given
+combination of ``@max_active`` of 1 and ``WQ_UNBOUND`` used to
+achieve this behavior. Work items on such wq were always queued to the
+unbound worker-pools and only one work item could be active at any given
time thus achieving the same ordering property as ST wq.
+In the current implementation the above configuration only guarantees
+ST behavior within a given NUMA node. Instead alloc_ordered_queue should
+be used to achieve system wide ST behavior.
+
Example Execution Scenarios
===========================
--
1.9.1
next reply other threads:[~2017-07-18 18:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-18 18:12 Alexei Potashnik [this message]
2017-07-18 18:37 ` Tejun Heo
2017-07-18 19:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-07-18 19:36 ` Tejun Heo
2017-07-18 21:32 ` Alexei Potashnik
2017-07-18 22:25 ` Alexei Potashnik
2017-07-18 22:41 ` [PATCH wq/for-4.13-fixes] workqueue: restore WQ_UNBOUND/max_active==1 to be ordered Tejun Heo
2017-07-19 15:25 ` Tejun Heo
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