From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758127AbaEPSww (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 May 2014 14:52:52 -0400 Received: from qmta04.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.40]:39244 "EHLO qmta04.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758101AbaEPSwv (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 May 2014 14:52:51 -0400 Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 13:52:48 -0500 (CDT) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: cl@gentwo.org To: Tejun Heo cc: Frederic Weisbecker , LKML , Kevin Hilman , Lai Jiangshan , Mike Galbraith , "Paul E. McKenney" , Viresh Kumar Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] workqueue: Create low-level unbound workqueues cpumask In-Reply-To: <20140516183500.GI5379@htj.dyndns.org> Message-ID: References: <1400257015-28222-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> <1400257015-28222-4-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> <20140516183500.GI5379@htj.dyndns.org> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 16 May 2014, Tejun Heo wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 12:52:26PM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > On Fri, 16 May 2014, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > > > > > It works on a lower-level than the per WQ_SYSFS workqueues cpumask files > > > such that the effective cpumask applied for a given unbound workqueue is > > > the intersection of /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/$WORKQUEUE/cpumask and > > > the new /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask_unbounds file. > > > > Why is there "virtual" directory in the path? Workqueues are "virtual" > > devices? > > I ain't an actual one. That apparently is the preferred place to > present software constructs like workqueues in sysfs. Could we fix that? A workqueue is not a device but more a kernel setting. /sys/kernel/workqueue/.... ?