Re: [PATCH 3/3] workqueue: Add anon workqueue sysfs hierarchy

[Frederic Weisbecker]

On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 02:55:51PM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 06:01:18PM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > 1) Call a per workqueue mutex when a work execute on an ordered workqueue. Although
> >   contention should be very rare (only while we replace the workqueue attrs and
> >   switch to a new worker), frequent locking may have a visible impact.
> > 
> > 2) Have a seperate worker for all ordered workqueues. But we may lose a bit of
> >   serialization with other workqueues along the way.
> 
> Ordered workqueues are always bound to the fallback default worker
> pool.  Why not just adjust cpus_allowed of the worker pool?

Now that you tell me, that sounds obvious enough. I'll try something.

Thanks.

> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> tejun
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