Re: Remove WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE flag from unbound wq's

[Song Liu]

On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 8:19 AM Maksym Planeta
<mplaneta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 13/02/2020 16:36, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 13 2020 at  9:18am -0500,
> > Maksym Planeta <mplaneta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> >> The documentation [1] says that WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE is "meaningless" for
> >> unbound wq. I remove this flag from places where unbound queue is
> >> allocated. This is supposed to improve code readability.
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> >> 1. https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/core-api/workqueue.html#flags
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> >> Signed-off-by: Maksym Planeta <mplaneta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> > What the Documentation says aside, have you cross referenced with the
> > code?  And/or have you done benchmarks to verify no changes?
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> It seems so from the code. Although, I'm not 100% confident. I did not
> run benchmarks, instead I relied that on the assumption that
> documentation is correct.

>From the code, WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE is only used to set
WORKER_CPU_INTENSIVE, and WORKER_CPU_INTENSIVE is only used
as part of WORKER_NOT_RUNNING, which includes WORKER_UNBOUND.
So, I agree that with current code, WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE with WQ_UNBOUND
is same as WQ_UNBOUND alone.

However, I don't think it is necessary to make the changes. They don't really
improve readability of the code.

Thanks,
Song