Re: [PATCH] workqueue: clear workers of a pool after the CPU isoffline

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Thu Jul 25 2013 - 23:07:25 EST


Hello,

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 10:13:25AM +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
> > Hmmm... if I'm not confused, now the cpu pools just behave like a
> > normal unbound pool when the cpu goes down,
>
> cpu pools are always referenced, they don't behave like unbound pool.

Yeah sure, they don't get destroyed but pool management functions the
same.

> > which means that the idle
> > cpu workers will exit once idle timeout is reached, right?
>
> No, no code to force the cpu workers quit currently.
> you can just offline a cpu to see what happened to the workers.

Hmmm? The idle timer thing doesn't work? Why?

--
tejun
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