linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] workqueue: Use TASK

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Date:   Wed, 23 Aug 2017 06:31:40 -0700
From:   Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     mingo@...nel.org, byungchul.park@....com, boqun.feng@...il.com,
        david@...morbit.com, johannes@...solutions.net, oleg@...hat.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] workqueue: Use TASK_IDLE

On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 01:58:44PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Workqueues don't use signals, it (ab)uses TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE to avoid
> increasing the loadavg numbers. We've 'recently' introduced TASK_IDLE
> for this case:
> 
>   80ed87c8a9ca ("sched/wait: Introduce TASK_NOLOAD and TASK_IDLE")
> 
> use it.

Applied to wq/for-4.14.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun