Re: [GIT PULL] workqueue fixes for v4.3-rc5

[Christoph Lameter]

On Wed, 14 Oct 2015, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Single patch to fix delayed work being queued on the wrong CPU.  This
> > has been broken forever (v2.6.31+) but obviously doesn't trigger in
> > most configurations.
>
> So why is this a bugfix? If cpu == WORK_CPU_UNBOUND, then things
> _shouldn't_ care which cpu it gets run on.

UNBOUND means not fixed to a processor. The system should have
freedom to schedule unbound work requests anywhere it wants. This is
something we also want for the NOHZ work in order to move things like
these workqueue items to processors that are not supposed to be low
latency.

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