Re: [PATCH 0/5] kmod: Cleanups, simplifications, and make isolation friendly v3

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Wed Aug 05 2015 - 13:13:09 EST


On 07/27, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
>
> Hence those two debatable changes:
>
> _ We would like to use generic workqueues. System unbound workqueues are
> a very good candidate but they are not wide affine, only node affine.
> Now probably a node is enough to perform many parallel kmod jobs.
>
> _ We would like to remove the wait_for_helper kernel thread (UMH_WAIT_PROC
> handler) to use the workqueue. It means that if the workqueue blocks,
> and no other worker can take pending kmod request, we can be screwed.
> Now if we have 512 threads, this should be enough.

I think this series is fine. Feel free to add my reviewed-by.

Oleg.

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