linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/5] workqueue: change value of lcpu in queue_delayed_work

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Date:	Mon, 13 Aug 2012 11:00:17 -0700
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	JoonSoo Kim <js1304@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] workqueue: change value of lcpu in
 queue_delayed_work_on()

Hello,

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 02:43:28AM +0900, JoonSoo Kim wrote:
> >> And, do u mean  @cpu is WORK_CPU_UNBOUND?
> >
> > @cpu could be WORK_CPU_UNBOUND at that point.  The timer will be added
> > to local CPU but @work->data would be pointing to WORK_CPU_UNBOUND,
> > again triggering the condition.  Given that @cpu being
> > WORK_CPU_UNBOUND is far more common than an actual CPU number, the
> > patch would actually increase spurious nrt lookups.  The right thing
> > to do is probably setting cpu to raw_smp_processor_id() beforehand.
> 
> I got your point.
> Thanks for kind illustration.
> 
> Following is a alternative implementation for this.
> I thinks this is too rare case, so it doesn't help in any real workload.
> But how do you thinks?
> 
> @@ -1156,7 +1156,9 @@ int queue_delayed_work_on(int cpu, struct
> workqueue_struct *wq,
>                 if (!(wq->flags & WQ_UNBOUND)) {
>                         struct global_cwq *gcwq = get_work_gcwq(work);
> 
> -                       if (gcwq && gcwq->cpu != WORK_CPU_UNBOUND)
> +                       if (!gcwq)
> +                               lcpu = cpu;
> +                       else if (gcwq->cpu != WORK_CPU_UNBOUND)
>                                 lcpu = gcwq->cpu;
>                         else
>                                 lcpu = raw_smp_processor_id();

Why not just do

	if (cpu == WORK_CPU_UNBOUND)
		cpu = raw_smp_processor_id();

	if (!(wq->flags...) {
		...
		if (gcwq && gcwq->cpu != WORK_CPU_UNBOUND)
			lcpu = gcwq->cpu;
		else
			lcpu = cpu;
	}
	...

	add_timer_on(timer, cpu);

Also, can you please base the patches on top of the following git
branch?

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq.git for-3.7

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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