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Message-ID: <20150428034918.GD2152@htj.duckdns.org>
Date:	Mon, 27 Apr 2015 23:49:18 -0400
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Kevin Hilman <khilman@...aro.org>,
	Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@...ine.de>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3 V8] workqueue: Allow modifying low level unbound
 workqueue cpumask

Hello,

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 10:24:31AM +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
> >> Wouldn't this make a lot more sense above when copying @attrs into
> >> @new_attrs?  The comment there even says "make a copy of @attrs and
> >> sanitize it".  Copy to @new_attrs, mask with wq_unbound_cpumask and
> >> fall back to wq_unbound_cpumask if empty.
> 
> We need to save the user original configured attrs.
> When any time wq_unbound_cpumask is changed, we should use
> the user original configured attrs (cpumask) to re-calculate
> the pwqs and avoid losing any information.

Sure, we can do that for new_attrs and then mask tmp_attrs further w/
wq_unbound_cpumask, no?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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