linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] workqueue:Fix affinity of an unbound worker of a node with 1 online CPU

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Date:	Wed, 15 Jun 2016 15:14:15 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Gautham R Shenoy <ego@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
	Abdul Haleem <abdhalee@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Aneesh Kumar <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] workqueue:Fix affinity of an unbound worker of a
 node with 1 online CPU

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 06:20:33PM +0530, Gautham R Shenoy wrote:
> We will no longer have the optimization in
> restore_unbound_workers_cpumask() but I suppose we don't lose much by
> resetting the affinity every time a CPU in the pool->attr->cpumask
> comes online.

Right; optimizing hotplug really isn't worth it. The code needs to be
simple and robust (ha! funny).

In any case, Tejun, does this work for you?