From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753229AbbGSMTo (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Jul 2015 08:19:44 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-f181.google.com ([209.85.212.181]:38457 "EHLO mail-wi0-f181.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752303AbbGSMTn (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Jul 2015 08:19:43 -0400 Message-ID: <1437308375.3520.114.camel@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [RFC] workqueue: avoiding unbounded wq on isolated CPUs by default From: Mike Galbraith To: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Tejun Heo , Daniel Bristot de Oliveira , LKML , Lai Jiangshan , Rik van Riel , "Luis Claudio R. Goncalves" Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2015 14:19:35 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1437292973.3505.83.camel@gmail.com> References: <9e53de7c91c885ee255e16ee25f401d9eedf08d9.1437067317.git.bristot@redhat.com> <20150716192448.GY15934@mtj.duckdns.org> <1437107190.3438.23.camel@gmail.com> <20150717152720.GD15934@mtj.duckdns.org> <1437153348.5860.32.camel@gmail.com> <20150718133602.GA3041@lerouge> <1437292973.3505.83.camel@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.12.11 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2015-07-19 at 10:02 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: > Why do we do nothing about these allegedly unbound work items? Hm, the answer to that question may be as simple as "Because we know gotchas exist, but not where they all the little bastards live" ;-) -Mike