Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] workqueue: Introduce PF_WQ_RESCUE_WORKER

[Aaron Tomlin]

> Note that the name changes to the work item the worker is currently
> executing. It won't stay that way. Workers are shared across the
> workqueues, so I'm not sure "identify and account all kernel threads" is
> working as well as you think it is.

Hi Tejun,

Indeed. The point is that these kworker kthreads are easily identifiable.

> We can certainly rename them to indicate that they are rescuers - e.g.
> maybe krescuer? But, at the moment, the proposed reason seems rather
> dubious.

Personally, I would prefer "kworker/r-%s" and then include the specified
workqueue's name e.g. "kworker/r-ext4-rsv-conver". So the rescuer task's
name is more consistent with the current naming scheme.
I will send a follow up patch.


Kind regards,

-- 
Aaron Tomlin