linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] workqueue: Add WQ_SCHED

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Date:   Wed, 18 Jan 2023 14:04:34 -0800
From:   Nathan Huckleberry <nhuck@...gle.com>
To:     Sandeep Dhavale <dhavale@...gle.com>
Cc:     Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Daeho Jeong <daehojeong@...gle.com>,
        Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>,
        Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>,
        Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] workqueue: Add WQ_SCHED_FIFO

On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 10:22 AM Sandeep Dhavale <dhavale@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 9:52 AM Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 01:00:00PM -0800, Nathan Huckleberry wrote:
> > > This sounds fine to me. How do you feel about a config flag to change
> > > the default WQ_HIGHPRI scheduler policy and a sysfs node to update the
> > > policy per workqueue?
> >
> > Yeah, sounds fine to me.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> Hi Tejun,
> If with the kernel config option, every WQ_HIGHPRI is elevated to
> sched_fifo_low, wouldn't that be kind of defeating the purpose? Having
> another class for even more urgent work is better in my opinion.

I agree, however most of the users of WQ_HIGHPRI that are relevant to
Android would probably have SCHED_FIFO enabled anyway.

I can write the patches such that WQ_HIGHPRI selects one of two
internal WQ flags. If using SCHED_FIFO for all workqueues is
problematic, Android can consider using the internal WQ flags directly
and carry those one-line patches in the Android tree.

Thanks,
Huck

>
> Thanks,
> Sandeep.
> > --
> > tejun