linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] workqueue: Create low-level unbound workqueues cpumask

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Message-ID: <7hy4yumjsb.fsf@paris.lan>
Date:	Thu, 24 Apr 2014 15:42:28 -0700
From:	Kevin Hilman <khilman@...aro.org>
To:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>,
	Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@...ine.de>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] workqueue: Create low-level unbound workqueues cpumask

Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com> writes:

> Create a cpumask that limit the affinity of all unbound workqueues.
> This cpumask is controlled though a file at the root of the workqueue
> sysfs directory.
>
> 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.
>
> This patch implements the basic infrastructure and the read interface.
> cpumask_unbounds is initially set to cpu_possible_mask.

For a nice default in the nohz_full case, how about this defaults to
!tick_nohz_full_mask? ...

[...]

> @@ -5033,6 +5055,9 @@ static int __init init_workqueues(void)
>  
>  	WARN_ON(__alignof__(struct pool_workqueue) < __alignof__(long long));
>  
> +	BUG_ON(!alloc_cpumask_var(&wq_unbound_cpumask, GFP_KERNEL));
> +	cpumask_copy(wq_unbound_cpumask, cpu_possible_mask);
> +

... so, something like this instead:

#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL
       cpumask_complement(wq_unbound_cpumask, tick_nohz_full_mask);
#else
       cpumask_copy(wq_unbound_cpumask, cpu_possible_mask);
#endif

Kevin

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