From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/12] workqueue: add WORKER_RESCUER
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 11:07:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120926180711.GB12544@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1348680043-5077-2-git-send-email-laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 01:20:32AM +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
> rescuer thread must be a worker which is WORKER_NOT_RUNNING:
> If it is *not* WORKER_NOT_RUNNING, it will increase the nr_running
> and it disables the normal workers wrongly.
>
> So rescuer thread must be WORKER_NOT_RUNNING.
>
> Currently code implement it by always setting WORKER_PREP on rescuer thread,
> but this kind of implement is ugly:
> A) It reuses WORKER_PREP which is used for a different meaning.
> B) It does not told us rescuer thread is WORKER_NOT_RUNNING.
>
> So we add WORKER_RESCUER to fix these two sematic.
Ah, right, we always have WORKER_PREP set for rescuers. So, this
doesn't actually change the behavior at all? I'm not necessarily
against it but the commit message seems a bit misleading.
Thanks.
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-26 18:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-26 17:20 [PATCH 00/12] workqueue: simple cleanups Lai Jiangshan
2012-09-26 17:20 ` [PATCH 01/12] workqueue: add WORKER_RESCUER Lai Jiangshan
2012-09-26 18:07 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2012-09-28 10:11 ` Lai Jiangshan
2012-09-26 17:20 ` [PATCH 02/12] workqueue: disallow set_cpus_allowed_ptr() from work item Lai Jiangshan
2012-09-26 18:12 ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-26 17:20 ` [PATCH 03/12] workqueue: remove WORKER_PREP from rescuer Lai Jiangshan
2012-09-26 18:24 ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-28 10:04 ` Lai Jiangshan
2012-09-30 7:39 ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-26 17:20 ` [PATCH 04/12] workqueue: simplify is_chained_work() Lai Jiangshan
2012-09-26 18:28 ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-28 9:52 ` Lai Jiangshan
2012-09-30 7:32 ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-26 17:20 ` [PATCH 05/12] workqueue: don't wake up other workers in rescuer Lai Jiangshan
2012-09-26 18:34 ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-28 10:18 ` Lai Jiangshan
2012-09-26 17:20 ` [PATCH 06/12] workqueue: destroy_worker() can only destory idle worker not just created worker Lai Jiangshan
2012-09-26 18:35 ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-26 17:20 ` [PATCH 07/12] workqueue: remove WORKER_STARTED Lai Jiangshan
2012-09-26 18:36 ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-28 9:52 ` Lai Jiangshan
2012-09-26 17:20 ` [PATCH 08/12] workqueue: fix comments of insert_work() Lai Jiangshan
2012-09-26 17:20 ` [PATCH 09/12] workqueue: declare system_highpri_wq Lai Jiangshan
2012-09-26 17:20 ` [PATCH 10/12] cpu-hotplug.txt: fix comments of work_on_cpu() Lai Jiangshan
2012-09-26 17:20 ` [RFC PATCH 11/12] workqueue: add WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE to system_long_wq Lai Jiangshan
2012-09-26 18:38 ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-28 8:06 ` Lai Jiangshan
2012-09-30 7:22 ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-26 17:20 ` [PATCH 12/12] workqueue: avoid work_on_cpu() to interfere system_wq Lai Jiangshan
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