linux-kernel - Re: [QUERY]: Is using CPU hotplug right for isolating CPUs?

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Date:	Fri, 24 Jan 2014 14:23:13 +0530
From:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
To:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc:	Lei Wen <adrian.wenl@...il.com>, Kevin Hilman <khilman@...aro.org>,
	Lists linaro-kernel <linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Linaro Networking <linaro-networking@...aro.org>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [QUERY]: Is using CPU hotplug right for isolating CPUs?

On 23 January 2014 19:31, Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com> wrote:
> Ok, so it is fine to migrate the latter kind I guess?

Unless somebody has abused the API and used bound workqueues where he
should have used unbound ones.

> I haven't checked the details but then this quiesce option would involve
> a dependency on cpuset for any workload involving workqueues affinity. I'm
> not sure we really want this. Besides, workqueues have an existing sysfs interface
> that can be easily extended.
>
> Now indeed we may also want to enforce some policy to make sure that further
> created and queued workqueues are affine to a specific subset of CPUs. And then
> cpuset sounds like a good idea :)

Exactly. Cpuset would be more useful here. Probably we can keep both cpusets
and sysfs interface of workqueues..

I will try to add this option under cpuset which will initially move timers and
workqueues away from the cpuset in question.
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