Re: [PATCH 3/5] workqueue: Create low-level unbound workqueues cpumask

[Christoph Lameter]

On Fri, 16 May 2014, Tejun Heo wrote:

> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 12:52:26PM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > On Fri, 16 May 2014, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> >
> > > It works on a lower-level than the per WQ_SYSFS workqueues cpumask files
> > > such that the effective cpumask applied for a given unbound workqueue is
> > > the intersection of /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/$WORKQUEUE/cpumask and
> > > the new /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask_unbounds file.
> >
> > Why is there "virtual" directory in the path? Workqueues are "virtual"
> > devices?
>
> I ain't an actual one.  That apparently is the preferred place to
> present software constructs like workqueues in sysfs.

Could we fix that? A workqueue is not a device but more a kernel setting.

/sys/kernel/workqueue/.... ?


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