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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
	Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] workqueue: Add anon workqueue sysfs hierarchy
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 14:55:51 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140322185551.GA24945@htj.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140322170114.GA20038@localhost.localdomain>

On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 06:01:18PM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> 1) Call a per workqueue mutex when a work execute on an ordered workqueue. Although
>   contention should be very rare (only while we replace the workqueue attrs and
>   switch to a new worker), frequent locking may have a visible impact.
> 
> 2) Have a seperate worker for all ordered workqueues. But we may lose a bit of
>   serialization with other workqueues along the way.

Ordered workqueues are always bound to the fallback default worker
pool.  Why not just adjust cpus_allowed of the worker pool?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-22 18:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-14 16:38 [RFC PATCH 0/3] workqueue: Control cpu affinity of !WQ_SYSFS unbound workqueues Frederic Weisbecker
2014-03-14 16:38 ` [PATCH 1/3] workqueue: Move workqueue bus attr to device attribute Frederic Weisbecker
2014-03-14 16:38 ` [PATCH 2/3] workqueues: Account unbound workqueue in a seperate list Frederic Weisbecker
2014-03-14 18:17   ` Kevin Hilman
2014-03-15 12:40     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2014-03-14 16:38 ` [PATCH 3/3] workqueue: Add anon workqueue sysfs hierarchy Frederic Weisbecker
2014-03-14 19:08   ` Kevin Hilman
2014-03-17 14:02     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2014-03-22 17:01     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2014-03-22 18:55       ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2014-03-22 22:04         ` Frederic Weisbecker
2014-03-14 18:06 ` [RFC PATCH 0/3] workqueue: Control cpu affinity of !WQ_SYSFS unbound workqueues Kevin Hilman

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