Re: [PATCH] Remove WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE flag from unbound wq's

[Gao Xiang]

On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 03:18:23PM +0100, Maksym Planeta wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 1. https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/core-api/workqueue.html#flags
> 
> Signed-off-by: Maksym Planeta <mplaneta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/crypto/hisilicon/qm.c | 3 +--
>  drivers/md/dm-crypt.c         | 2 +-
>  drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c | 2 +-
>  drivers/md/raid5.c            | 2 +-
>  fs/erofs/zdata.c              | 2 +-

I'm okay for EROFS part,

Acked-by: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
Gao Xiang

>  5 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/crypto/hisilicon/qm.c b/drivers/crypto/hisilicon/qm.c
> index b57da5ef8b5b..4a39cb2c6a0b 100644
> --- a/drivers/crypto/hisilicon/qm.c
> +++ b/drivers/crypto/hisilicon/qm.c
> @@ -1148,8 +1148,7 @@ struct hisi_qp *hisi_qm_create_qp(struct hisi_qm *qm, u8 alg_type)
>  	qp->qp_id = qp_id;
>  	qp->alg_type = alg_type;
>  	INIT_WORK(&qp->work, qm_qp_work_func);
> -	qp->wq = alloc_workqueue("hisi_qm", WQ_UNBOUND | WQ_HIGHPRI |
> -				 WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE | WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, 0);
> +	qp->wq = alloc_workqueue("hisi_qm", WQ_UNBOUND | WQ_HIGHPRI | WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, 0);
>  	if (!qp->wq) {
>  		ret = -EFAULT;
>  		goto err_free_qp_mem;
> diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c b/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c
> index c6a529873d0f..44d56325fa27 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c
> @@ -3032,7 +3032,7 @@ static int crypt_ctr(struct dm_target *ti, unsigned int argc, char **argv)
>  						  1, devname);
>  	else
>  		cc->crypt_queue = alloc_workqueue("kcryptd/%s",
> -						  WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE | WQ_MEM_RECLAIM | WQ_UNBOUND,
> +						  WQ_MEM_RECLAIM | WQ_UNBOUND,
>  						  num_online_cpus(), devname);
>  	if (!cc->crypt_queue) {
>  		ti->error = "Couldn't create kcryptd queue";
> diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c b/drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c
> index 0d61e9c67986..20f92c7ea07e 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c
> @@ -1190,7 +1190,7 @@ static int verity_ctr(struct dm_target *ti, unsigned argc, char **argv)
>  	}
>  
>  	/* WQ_UNBOUND greatly improves performance when running on ramdisk */
> -	v->verify_wq = alloc_workqueue("kverityd", WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE | WQ_MEM_RECLAIM | WQ_UNBOUND, num_online_cpus());
> +	v->verify_wq = alloc_workqueue("kverityd", WQ_MEM_RECLAIM | WQ_UNBOUND, num_online_cpus());
>  	if (!v->verify_wq) {
>  		ti->error = "Cannot allocate workqueue";
>  		r = -ENOMEM;
> diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5.c b/drivers/md/raid5.c
> index ba00e9877f02..cd93a1731b82 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/raid5.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/raid5.c
> @@ -8481,7 +8481,7 @@ static int __init raid5_init(void)
>  	int ret;
>  
>  	raid5_wq = alloc_workqueue("raid5wq",
> -		WQ_UNBOUND|WQ_MEM_RECLAIM|WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE|WQ_SYSFS, 0);
> +		WQ_UNBOUND|WQ_MEM_RECLAIM|WQ_SYSFS, 0);
>  	if (!raid5_wq)
>  		return -ENOMEM;
>  
> diff --git a/fs/erofs/zdata.c b/fs/erofs/zdata.c
> index 80e47f07d946..b2a679f720e9 100644
> --- a/fs/erofs/zdata.c
> +++ b/fs/erofs/zdata.c
> @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ void z_erofs_exit_zip_subsystem(void)
>  static inline int z_erofs_init_workqueue(void)
>  {
>  	const unsigned int onlinecpus = num_possible_cpus();
> -	const unsigned int flags = WQ_UNBOUND | WQ_HIGHPRI | WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE;
> +	const unsigned int flags = WQ_UNBOUND | WQ_HIGHPRI;
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * no need to spawn too many threads, limiting threads could minimum
> -- 
> 2.24.1
>