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Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 11:53:50 -0400
From: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
To: "Gautham R. Shenoy" <ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] workqueue: Move wq_update_unbound_numa() to the
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Hello,

On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 08:44:02PM +0530, Gautham R. Shenoy wrote:
> Currently in the CPU_ONLINE workqueue handler, the
> restore_unbound_workers_cpumask() will never call
> set_cpus_allowed_ptr() for a newly created unbound worker thread.

Hmmm... did you actually verify that this happens?  A new kworker
always gets bound to the cpumask that it's assigned to in
create_worker().

Thanks.

-- 
tejun