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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 18:07:35 -0500
From: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@...cle.com>
To: Hillf Danton <hdanton@...a.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/4] workqueue: fix selecting cpu for queuing work
[please cc maintainers]
On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 06:59:19PM +0800, Hillf Danton wrote:
> Round robin is needed only for unbound workqueue and wq_unbound_cpumask
> has nothing to do with standard workqueues, so we have to select cpu in
> case of WORK_CPU_UNBOUND also with workqueue type taken into account.
Good catch. I'd include something like this in the changelog.
Otherwise, work queued on a bound workqueue with WORK_CPU_UNBOUND might
not prefer the local CPU if wq_unbound_cpumask is non-empty and doesn't
include that CPU.
With that you can add
Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@...cle.com>
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