Re: [workqueue/driver-core PATCH 1/5] workqueue: Provide queue_work_near to queue work near a given NUMA node

[Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>]

On 10/10/2018 8:30 AM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>> +static int workqueue_select_cpu_near(int node)
>> +{
> ...
>> +	/* Use "random" otherwise know as "first" online CPU of node */
>> +	cpu = cpumask_any_and(cpumask_of_node(node), cpu_online_mask);
> 
> Maybe we wanna round-robin within the node?

I had thought about it. It adds extra complexity to do it and for 
unbound work queues it doesn't really add anything since it gets 
converted back into a node anyway.

If you wanted I could look at adding extra logic that would do the 
round-robin for non-unbound workqueues. I just wasn't sure if it was 
worth the effort since the current users are all unbound workqueues.

>> +bool queue_work_near(int node, struct workqueue_struct *wq,
>> +		     struct work_struct *work)
> 
> Can we name it queue_work_node() to stay consistent with numa-aware
> memory interface?

Yes. No problem.

> Thanks.

Thanks for the review feedback.

- Alex