Re: [PATCHSET] workqueue: break local execution guarantee of unbound work items

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Feb 09 2016 - 19:53:27 EST


On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 3:14 PM, Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This patchset reverts 874bbfe600a6 ("workqueue: make sure delayed work
> run in local cpu"), expands wq_unbound_cpu_mask so that it also
> applies to unbound work items queued on percpu workqueues, and
> implements a debug feature which forces wq_unbound_cpu_mask based
> round-robin selection to flush out usages which depend on the local
> execution guarantee.

Looks all very reasonable to me.

Linus