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From: Ryan Mallon <rmallon@gmail.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com,
	axboe@kernel.dk, jmoyer@redhat.com, zab@redhat.com,
	kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 16/31] workqueue: introduce workqueue_attrs
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2013 09:40:48 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51367470.5040909@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130305223434.GB1227@htj.dyndns.org>

On 06/03/13 09:34, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 02:33:27PM -0800, Tejun Heo wrote:
>> Hello, Ryan.
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 09:29:35AM +1100, Ryan Mallon wrote:
>>>> @@ -148,6 +148,8 @@ struct worker_pool {
>>>>  	struct mutex		assoc_mutex;	/* protect POOL_DISASSOCIATED */
>>>>  	struct ida		worker_ida;	/* L: for worker IDs */
>>>>  
>>>> +	struct workqueue_attrs	*attrs;		/* I: worker attributes */
>>>
>>> If attrs always exists, why not just embed the struct and avoid the
>>> need to alloc/free it?
>>
>> Because then it'll need a separate init paths for embedded ones.  If
>> the field was in any way hot, I'd have embedded it but it isn't and
>> it's just less code to share the alloc path.
> 
> Ooh, right, and that cpumask_t is going away and you can't statically
> allocate cpumask_var_t, so it needs an allocation and error check from
> it anyway.

Not sure I follow. I mean drop the pointer, eg:

	struct workqueue_attr attrs;

Since, at least in this patch, struct worker_pool appears to always
alloc the attrs field. You do still of course need the cpumask_t
initialisation. Am I missing something?

~Ryan



  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-05 22:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-02  3:23 [PATCHSET wq/for-3.10-tmp] workqueue: implement workqueue with custom worker attributes Tejun Heo
2013-03-02  3:23 ` [PATCH 01/31] workqueue: make sanity checks less punshing using WARN_ON[_ONCE]()s Tejun Heo
2013-03-02  3:23 ` [PATCH 02/31] workqueue: make workqueue_lock irq-safe Tejun Heo
2013-03-02  3:23 ` [PATCH 03/31] workqueue: introduce kmem_cache for pool_workqueues Tejun Heo
2013-03-02  3:23 ` [PATCH 04/31] workqueue: add workqueue_struct->pwqs list Tejun Heo
2013-03-02  3:23 ` [PATCH 05/31] workqueue: replace for_each_pwq_cpu() with for_each_pwq() Tejun Heo
2013-03-02  3:23 ` [PATCH 06/31] workqueue: introduce for_each_pool() Tejun Heo
2013-03-02  3:23 ` [PATCH 07/31] workqueue: restructure pool / pool_workqueue iterations in freeze/thaw functions Tejun Heo
2013-03-10 10:09   ` Lai Jiangshan
2013-03-10 12:34     ` Tejun Heo
2013-03-02  3:23 ` [PATCH 08/31] workqueue: add wokrqueue_struct->maydays list to replace mayday cpu iterators Tejun Heo
2013-03-02  3:24 ` [PATCH 09/31] workqueue: consistently use int for @cpu variables Tejun Heo
2013-03-02  3:24 ` [PATCH 10/31] workqueue: remove workqueue_struct->pool_wq.single Tejun Heo
2013-03-02  3:24 ` [PATCH 11/31] workqueue: replace get_pwq() with explicit per_cpu_ptr() accesses and first_pwq() Tejun Heo
2013-03-02  3:24 ` [PATCH 12/31] workqueue: update synchronization rules on workqueue->pwqs Tejun Heo
2013-03-10 10:09   ` Lai Jiangshan
2013-03-10 12:38     ` Tejun Heo
2013-03-12 18:20   ` [PATCH v2 " Tejun Heo
2013-03-02  3:24 ` [PATCH 13/31] workqueue: update synchronization rules on worker_pool_idr Tejun Heo
2013-03-12 18:20   ` [PATCH v2 " Tejun Heo
2013-03-02  3:24 ` [PATCH 14/31] workqueue: replace POOL_MANAGING_WORKERS flag with worker_pool->manager_mutex Tejun Heo
2013-03-10 10:09   ` Lai Jiangshan
2013-03-10 12:46     ` Tejun Heo
2013-03-12 18:19   ` [PATCH v2 " Tejun Heo
2013-03-02  3:24 ` [PATCH 15/31] workqueue: separate out init_worker_pool() from init_workqueues() Tejun Heo
2013-03-02  3:24 ` [PATCH 16/31] workqueue: introduce workqueue_attrs Tejun Heo
2013-03-04 18:37   ` [PATCH v2 " Tejun Heo
2013-03-05 22:29     ` Ryan Mallon
2013-03-05 22:33       ` Tejun Heo
2013-03-05 22:34         ` Tejun Heo
2013-03-05 22:40           ` Ryan Mallon [this message]
2013-03-05 22:44             ` Tejun Heo
2013-03-05 23:20               ` Ryan Mallon
2013-03-05 23:28                 ` Tejun Heo
2013-03-02  3:24 ` [PATCH 17/31] workqueue: implement attribute-based unbound worker_pool management Tejun Heo
2013-03-10 10:08   ` Lai Jiangshan
2013-03-10 12:58     ` Tejun Heo
2013-03-10 18:36       ` Tejun Heo
2013-03-12 18:21   ` [PATCH v2 " Tejun Heo
2013-03-02  3:24 ` [PATCH 18/31] workqueue: remove unbound_std_worker_pools[] and related helpers Tejun Heo
2013-03-02  3:24 ` [PATCH 19/31] workqueue: drop "std" from cpu_std_worker_pools and for_each_std_worker_pool() Tejun Heo
2013-03-02  3:24 ` [PATCH 20/31] workqueue: add pool ID to the names of unbound kworkers Tejun Heo
2013-03-02  3:24 ` [PATCH 21/31] workqueue: drop WQ_RESCUER and test workqueue->rescuer for NULL instead Tejun Heo
2013-03-02  3:24 ` [PATCH 22/31] workqueue: restructure __alloc_workqueue_key() Tejun Heo
2013-03-02  3:24 ` [PATCH 23/31] workqueue: implement get/put_pwq() Tejun Heo
2013-03-02  3:24 ` [PATCH 24/31] workqueue: prepare flush_workqueue() for dynamic creation and destrucion of unbound pool_workqueues Tejun Heo
2013-03-02  3:24 ` [PATCH 25/31] workqueue: perform non-reentrancy test when queueing to unbound workqueues too Tejun Heo
2013-03-02  3:24 ` [PATCH 26/31] workqueue: implement apply_workqueue_attrs() Tejun Heo
2013-03-02  3:24 ` [PATCH 27/31] workqueue: make it clear that WQ_DRAINING is an internal flag Tejun Heo
2013-03-02  3:24 ` [PATCH 28/31] workqueue: reject increasing max_active for ordered workqueues Tejun Heo
2013-03-04 18:30   ` [PATCH UPDATED 28/31] workqueue: reject adjusting max_active or applying attrs to " Tejun Heo
2013-03-02  3:24 ` [PATCH 29/31] cpumask: implement cpumask_parse() Tejun Heo
2013-03-02  3:24 ` [PATCH 30/31] driver/base: implement subsys_virtual_register() Tejun Heo
2013-03-02 18:17   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-03-02 20:26     ` Tejun Heo
2013-03-03  6:42     ` Kay Sievers
2013-03-05 20:43       ` Tejun Heo
2013-03-07 23:31         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-03-08  0:04           ` Kay Sievers
2013-03-10 11:57             ` Tejun Heo
2013-03-10 16:45               ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-03-10 17:00                 ` Kay Sievers
2013-03-10 17:24                   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-03-10 17:50                     ` Kay Sievers
2013-03-10 18:34                       ` Tejun Heo
2013-03-12 18:40                         ` Tejun Heo
2013-03-02  3:24 ` [PATCH 31/31] workqueue: implement sysfs interface for workqueues Tejun Heo
2013-03-04 18:30   ` [PATCH v2 " Tejun Heo
2013-03-05 20:41 ` [PATCHSET wq/for-3.10-tmp] workqueue: implement workqueue with custom worker attributes Tejun Heo
2013-03-10 10:34 ` Lai Jiangshan
2013-03-10 12:01   ` Tejun Heo
2013-03-11 15:24     ` Tejun Heo
2013-03-11 15:40       ` Lai Jiangshan
2013-03-11 15:42     ` Lai Jiangshan
2013-03-11 15:43       ` Tejun Heo
2013-03-12 18:10     ` Tejun Heo
2013-03-12 18:34 ` Tejun Heo

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