netdev - Re: Consider switching to WQ_UNBOUND messages (was: Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] workqueue: Report work funcs that trigger automatic CPU

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Message-ID: <ZK30CR196rs-OWLq@slm.duckdns.org>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2023 14:30:01 -1000
From: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>,
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Subject: Re: Consider switching to WQ_UNBOUND messages (was: Re: [PATCH v2
 6/7] workqueue: Report work funcs that trigger automatic CPU_INTENSIVE
 mechanism)

On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 11:39:17AM -1000, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 04:06:22PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 3:55 PM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org> wrote:
...
> > workqueue: neigh_managed_work hogged CPU for >10000us 4 times,
> > consider switching to WQ_UNBOUND
> 
> I wonder whether the right thing to do here is somehow scaling the threshold
> according to the relative processing power. It's difficult to come up with a
> threshold which works well across the latest & fastest and really tiny CPUs.
> I'll think about it some more but if you have some ideas, please feel free
> to suggest.

Geert, do you mind posting the full kernel logs for the affected machines?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun