linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 7/8] workqueue: Remove the outer loop in maybe_create

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Date:   Thu, 18 Aug 2022 22:44:02 +0800
From:   Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>
To:     Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Lai Jiangshan <jiangshan.ljs@...group.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 7/8] workqueue: Remove the outer loop in maybe_create_worker()

On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 6:08 AM Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 04, 2022 at 04:41:34PM +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
> > worker_thread() always does the recheck after getting the manager role,
> > so the recheck in the maybe_create_worker() is unneeded and is removed.
>
> So, before if multiple workers need to be created, a single manager would
> create them all. After, we'd end up daisy chaining, right? One manager
> creates one worker and goes to process one work item. The new worker wakes
> up and becomes the manager and creates another worker and so on. That
> doesn't seem like a desirable behavior.
>

The recheck is always in the same pool lock critical section, so the
behavior isn't changed before/after this patch.