Re: [RFC][PATCH v3 7/10] workqueue: add WQ_IDLEPRI

[Tejun Heo]

Hello,

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 07:50:19PM +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> On Thu, 26 May 2011 19:30:18 +0900
> KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > In the next version, I'll try some like..
> > ==
> > 	process_one_work(...) {
> > 		.....
> > 		spin_unlock_irq(&gcwq->lock);
> > 		.....
> > 		if (cwq->wq->flags & WQ_IDLEPRI) {
> > 			set_scheduler(...SCHED_IDLE...)
> > 			cond_resched();
> > 			scheduler_switched = true;
> > 		}
> > 		f(work) 
> > 		if (scheduler_switched)
> > 			set_scheduler(...SCHED_OTHER...)
> > 		spin_lock_irq(&gcwq->lock);
> > 	}
> > ==
> > Patch size will be much smaller. (Should I do this in memcg's code ??)
> > 
> 
> BTW, my concern is that if f(work) is enough short,effect of SCHED_IDLE will never
> be found because SCHED_OTHER -> SCHED_IDLE -> SCHED_OTHER switch is very fast.
> Changed "weight" of CFQ never affects the next calculation of vruntime..of the
> thread and the work will show the same behavior with SCHED_OTHER.
> 
> I'm sorry if I misunderstand CFQ and setscheduler().

Hmm... I'm not too familiar there either but,

* If prio is lowered (you're gonna lower it too, right?),
  prio_changed_fair() is called which in turn does resched_task() as
  necessary.

* More importantly, for short work items, it's likely to not matter at
  all.  If you can determine beforehand that it's not gonna take very
  long time, queueing on system_wq would be more efficient.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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