From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, len.brown@intel.com,
rafael@kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org,
jiangshanlai@gmail.com, pavel@ucw.cz, zwisler@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [workqueue/driver-core PATCH 1/5] workqueue: Provide queue_work_near to queue work near a given NUMA node
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2018 08:37:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181010153702.GN270328@devbig004.ftw2.facebook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <36fd7d36-ea79-bd69-4576-06ab4635f0d3@linux.intel.com>
Hello,
On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 08:34:06AM -0700, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> >Maybe we wanna round-robin within the node?
>
> I had thought about it. It adds extra complexity to do it and for
> unbound work queues it doesn't really add anything since it gets
> converted back into a node anyway.
Yeap, it only makes sense for per-cpu workqueues.
> If you wanted I could look at adding extra logic that would do the
> round-robin for non-unbound workqueues. I just wasn't sure if it was
> worth the effort since the current users are all unbound workqueues.
It doesn't have to be complex, just a per-node unsynchronized int
which gets incremented and %'s would work fine. Alternatively, we can
trigger WARN_ON_ONCE() if the function is used on a per-cpu workqueue.
Thanks.
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-10 15:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-05 18:34 [workqueue/driver-core PATCH 0/5] Add NUMA aware async_schedule calls Alexander Duyck
2018-10-05 18:34 ` [workqueue/driver-core PATCH 1/5] workqueue: Provide queue_work_near to queue work near a given NUMA node Alexander Duyck
2018-10-10 15:30 ` Tejun Heo
2018-10-10 15:34 ` Alexander Duyck
2018-10-10 15:37 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2018-10-05 18:34 ` [workqueue/driver-core PATCH 2/5] async: Add support for queueing on specific " Alexander Duyck
2018-10-05 18:34 ` [workqueue/driver-core PATCH 3/5] driver core: Probe devices asynchronously instead of the driver Alexander Duyck
2018-10-05 18:34 ` [workqueue/driver-core PATCH 4/5] driver core: Attach devices on CPU local to device node Alexander Duyck
2018-10-05 18:34 ` [workqueue/driver-core PATCH 5/5] PM core: Use new async_schedule_dev command Alexander Duyck
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