linux-kernel - Re: Remove WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE flag from unbound wq's

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Date:   Thu, 13 Feb 2020 17:19:01 +0100
From:   Maksym Planeta <mplaneta@...inf.tu-dresden.de>
To:     Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>
Cc:     Zhou Wang <wangzhou1@...ilicon.com>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Alasdair Kergon <agk@...hat.com>, dm-devel@...hat.com,
        Song Liu <song@...nel.org>, Gao Xiang <xiang@...nel.org>,
        Chao Yu <chao@...nel.org>, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-raid@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-erofs@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Remove WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE flag from unbound wq's



On 13/02/2020 16:36, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 13 2020 at  9:18am -0500,
> Maksym Planeta <mplaneta@...inf.tu-dresden.de> wrote:
> 
>> The documentation [1] says that WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE is "meaningless" for
>> unbound wq. I remove this flag from places where unbound queue is
>> allocated. This is supposed to improve code readability.
>>
>> 1. https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/core-api/workqueue.html#flags
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Maksym Planeta <mplaneta@...inf.tu-dresden.de>
> 
> What the Documentation says aside, have you cross referenced with the
> code?  And/or have you done benchmarks to verify no changes?
> 

It seems so from the code. Although, I'm not 100% confident. I did not 
run benchmarks, instead I relied that on the assumption that 
documentation is correct.

> Thanks,
> Mike
> 

-- 
Regards,
Maksym Planeta