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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] workqueue fixes for v4.5-rc3
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 09:18:59 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1602110916400.25254@nanos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFzEGzQ9_Dhuw0FpHp-zVosY-KRvYNsHVfXKt+t1HCF11w@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 10 Feb 2016, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 9:25 AM, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > * Officially break local execution guarantee of unbound work items and
> >   add a debug feature to flush out usages which depend on it.
> 
> Btw, should we try to do this for timers too? A debug option to make a
> regular "add_timer()" explicitly schedule things on another CPU, to
> figure out the cases that really should use "add_timer_on()"?

That certainly makes sense. So we should use a common debug option to force
the 'schedule remote' machinery for all interesting subsystems instead of
creating an extra option for each.

Thanks,

	tglx

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-11  8:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-10 17:25 Tejun Heo
2016-02-10 19:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-02-11  8:18   ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2016-02-11 18:26     ` Linus Torvalds
2016-02-11 18:49       ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-02-11 18:56         ` Linus Torvalds

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