From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] powerpc/workqueue: update list of possible CPUs
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2017 07:48:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170821144832.GE491396@devbig577.frc2.facebook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170821134951.18848-1-lvivier@redhat.com>
On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 03:49:50PM +0200, Laurent Vivier wrote:
> In wq_numa_init() a list of NUMA nodes with their list of possible CPUs
> is built.
>
> Unfortunately, on powerpc, the Firmware is only able to provide the
> node of a CPU if the CPU is present. So, in our case (possible CPU)
> CPU ids are known, but as the CPU is not present, the node id is
> unknown and all the unplugged CPUs are attached to node 0.
This is something powerpc needs to fix. Workqueue isn't the only one
making this assumption. mm as a whole assumes that CPU <-> node
mapping is stable regardless of hotplug events. Powerpc people know
about the issue and AFAIK are working on it.
Thanks.
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-21 14:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-21 13:49 [PATCH 1/2] powerpc/workqueue: update list of possible CPUs Laurent Vivier
2017-08-21 13:49 ` [PATCH 2/2] blk-mq: don't use WORK_CPU_UNBOUND Laurent Vivier
2017-08-21 14:48 ` Tejun Heo
2017-08-21 14:48 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2017-08-22 1:41 ` [PATCH 1/2] powerpc/workqueue: update list of possible CPUs Michael Ellerman
2017-08-22 16:54 ` Tejun Heo
2017-08-23 11:00 ` Michael Ellerman
2017-08-23 11:17 ` Laurent Vivier
2017-08-23 13:26 ` Tejun Heo
2017-08-24 12:10 ` Laurent Vivier
2017-08-24 13:51 ` Tejun Heo
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