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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com, cl@linux.com, riel@redhat.com,
	rusty@rustcorp.com.au, tj@kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: + kmod-remove-unecessary-explicit-wide-cpu-affinity-setting.patch added to -mm tree
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 01:32:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150707233226.GA3611@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <559c5c37.S4vYB5A6NQhb8Yx5%akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Well, sorry for noise.

Let me repeat that I agree with this change, but...

On 07/07, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
> Subject: kmod: remove unecessary explicit wide CPU affinity setting
>
> Not only useless it even breaks nohz full.  The housekeeping work (general
> kernel internal code that user doesn't care much about) is handled by a
> reduced set of CPUs in nohz full, precisely those that are not included by
> nohz_full= kernel parameters.  For example unbound workqueues are handled
> by housekeeping CPUs.

I still think this part of the changelog looks confusing and just wrong.

It is not that it breaks nohz full, unbound workqueues have nothing to
do with housekeeping_mask from the kernel pov. But yes, people can change
->cpumask and this can connect to housekeeping_mask.

Frederic, may I ask you to update the changelog? Although perhaps it was
just me who was confused...

Oleg.


       reply	other threads:[~2015-07-07 23:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <559c5c37.S4vYB5A6NQhb8Yx5%akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2015-07-07 23:32 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2015-07-08 12:52   ` + kmod-remove-unecessary-explicit-wide-cpu-affinity-setting.patch added to -mm tree Frederic Weisbecker

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