Re: [PATCH -tip V2 00/10] workqueue: break affinity initiatively

[Paul E. McKenney]

On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 01:09:09AM +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
> From: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 06249738a41a ("workqueue: Manually break affinity on hotplug")
> said that scheduler will not force break affinity for us.
> 
> But workqueue highly depends on the old behavior. Many parts of the codes
> relies on it, 06249738a41a ("workqueue: Manually break affinity on hotplug")
> is not enough to change it, and the commit has flaws in itself too.
> 
> It doesn't handle for worker detachment.
> It doesn't handle for worker attachement, mainly worker creation
>   which is handled by Valentin Schneider's patch [1].
> It doesn't handle for unbound workers which might be possible
> per-cpu-kthread.
> 
> We need to thoroughly update the way workqueue handles affinity
> in cpu hot[un]plug, what is this patchset intends to do and
> replace the Valentin Schneider's patch [1].  The equivalent patch
> is patch 10.
> 
> Patch 1 fixes a flaw reported by Hillf Danton <hdanton@xxxxxxxx>.
> I have to include this fix because later patches depends on it.
> 
> The patchset is based on tip/master rather than workqueue tree,
> because the patchset is a complement for 06249738a41a ("workqueue:
> Manually break affinity on hotplug") which is only in tip/master by now.
> 
> And TJ acked to route the series through tip.
> 
> Changed from V1:
> 	Add TJ's acked-by for the whole patchset
> 
> 	Add more words to the comments and the changelog, mainly derived
> 	from discussion with Peter.
> 
> 	Update the comments as TJ suggested.
> 	
> 	Update a line of code as Valentin suggested.
> 
> 	Add Valentin's ack for patch 10 because "Seems alright to me." and
> 	add Valentin's comments to the changelog which is integral.
> 
> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ff62e3ee994efb3620177bf7b19fab16f4866845.camel@xxxxxxxxxx
> [V1 patcheset]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201214155457.3430-1-jiangshanlai@xxxxxxxxx/
> 
> Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Vincent Donnefort <vincent.donnefort@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>

And rcutorture hits this, so thank you for the fix!

Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>

> Lai Jiangshan (10):
>   workqueue: restore unbound_workers' cpumask correctly
>   workqueue: use cpu_possible_mask instead of cpu_active_mask to break
>     affinity
>   workqueue: Manually break affinity on pool detachment
>   workqueue: don't set the worker's cpumask when kthread_bind_mask()
>   workqueue: introduce wq_online_cpumask
>   workqueue: use wq_online_cpumask in restore_unbound_workers_cpumask()
>   workqueue: Manually break affinity on hotplug for unbound pool
>   workqueue: reorganize workqueue_online_cpu()
>   workqueue: reorganize workqueue_offline_cpu() unbind_workers()
>   workqueue: Fix affinity of kworkers when attaching into pool
> 
>  kernel/workqueue.c | 214 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
>  1 file changed, 132 insertions(+), 82 deletions(-)
> 
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