From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] workqueue: restructure flush_workqueue() and start all flusher at the same time
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:39:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120924203954.GD29689@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1348481238-6138-1-git-send-email-laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Hello, Lai.
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 06:07:02PM +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
> The core patch is patch6, it makes all flusher can start and the same time
> and allow us do more cleanup.
>
> Only patch1 and patch6 change the behavior of the code.
> All other patches do not change any behavior.
It would have been nice if you described what this patchset tries to
achieve how in the head message.
I don't see anything wrong with the patchset but flush_workqueue() is
quite hairy before this patchset and I'm not sure the situation
improves a lot afterwards. The current code is known / verified to
work for quite some time and I'd *much* prefer to keep it stable
unless it can be vastly simpler.
I do like the removal of explicit cascading and would have gone that
direction if this code is just being implemented but I'm quite
skeptical whether changing over to that now is justifiable. Flush
bugs tend to be nasty and often difficult to track down.
I'll think more about it. How confident are you about the change?
How did you test them? For changes like this, it usually helps a lot
to describe how things were tested as part of head and/or commit
messages.
Thanks.
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-24 20:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-24 10:07 [PATCH 00/10] workqueue: restructure flush_workqueue() and start all flusher at the same time Lai Jiangshan
2012-09-24 10:07 ` [PATCH 01/10] workqueue: always pass flush responsibility to next Lai Jiangshan
2012-09-24 10:07 ` [PATCH 02/10] workqueue: remove unneeded check Lai Jiangshan
2012-09-24 10:07 ` [PATCH 03/10] workqueue: remove while(true) Lai Jiangshan
2012-09-24 10:07 ` [PATCH 04/10] workqueue: use nr_cwqs_to_flush array Lai Jiangshan
2012-09-24 10:07 ` [PATCH 05/10] workqueue: add wq_dec_flusher_ref() Lai Jiangshan
2012-09-24 10:07 ` [PATCH 06/10] workqueue: start all flusher at the same time Lai Jiangshan
2012-09-24 10:07 ` [PATCH 07/10] workqueue: simplify flush_workqueue_prep_cwqs() Lai Jiangshan
2012-09-24 10:07 ` [PATCH 08/10] workqueue: assign overflowed flushers's flush color when queued Lai Jiangshan
2012-09-24 10:07 ` [PATCH 09/10] workqueue: remove flusher_overflow Lai Jiangshan
2012-09-24 10:07 ` [PATCH 10/10] workqueue: remove wq->flush_color Lai Jiangshan
2012-09-24 20:39 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2012-09-25 9:02 ` [PATCH 00/10] workqueue: restructure flush_workqueue() and start all flusher at the same time Lai Jiangshan
2012-09-25 20:14 ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-25 9:02 ` Lai Jiangshan
2012-09-25 20:24 ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-26 4:48 ` Lai Jiangshan
2012-09-26 16:49 ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-26 17:04 ` Tejun Heo
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