Re: [PATCH 3/4] staging: lustre: lnet: convert selftest to use workqueues

[Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>]

Hello, Greg.

On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 03:45:58PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 12:25:19PM +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
> > Instead of the cfs workitem library, use workqueues.
> > 
> > As lnet wants to provide a cpu mask of allowed cpus, it
> > needs to be a WQ_UNBOUND work queue so that tasks can
> > run on cpus other than where they were submitted.
> 
> This patch doesn't apply to my tree :(
> 
> > apply_workqueue_atts needs to be exported for lustre to use it.
> 
> That feels really odd, why is lustre so "special" that the normal
> workqueue api doesn't work properly for it?
> 
> I've dropped this, and the next patch, from my queue now.  Please fix up
> and resend and justify why lustre is so odd :)

The workqueue attrs interface is relatively new and just hasn't had
internal module users.  It's not necessarily odd to want to use them
from modules.  I'll be happy to ack patches which add
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() on them.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun