Re: [PATCH 1/4] workqueue: Create low-level unbound workqueues cpumask

[Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>]

Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> writes:

> Create a cpumask that limit the affinity of all unbound workqueues.
> This cpumask is controlled though a file at the root of the workqueue
> sysfs directory.
>
> It works on a lower-level than the per WQ_SYSFS workqueues cpumask files
> such that the effective cpumask applied for a given unbound workqueue is
> the intersection of /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/$WORKQUEUE/cpumask and
> the new /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask_unbounds file.
>
> This patch implements the basic infrastructure and the read interface.
> cpumask_unbounds is initially set to cpu_possible_mask.

For a nice default in the nohz_full case, how about this defaults to
!tick_nohz_full_mask? ...

[...]

> @@ -5033,6 +5055,9 @@ static int __init init_workqueues(void)
>  
>  	WARN_ON(__alignof__(struct pool_workqueue) < __alignof__(long long));
>  
> +	BUG_ON(!alloc_cpumask_var(&wq_unbound_cpumask, GFP_KERNEL));
> +	cpumask_copy(wq_unbound_cpumask, cpu_possible_mask);
> +

... so, something like this instead:

#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL
       cpumask_complement(wq_unbound_cpumask, tick_nohz_full_mask);
#else
       cpumask_copy(wq_unbound_cpumask, cpu_possible_mask);
#endif

Kevin