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Re: [GIT PULL] workqueue fixes for v4.3-rc5

From Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [GIT PULL] workqueue fixes for v4.3-rc5
Date 2015-10-14 20:10 +0200
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On Wed, 14 Oct 2015, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > Single patch to fix delayed work being queued on the wrong CPU.  This
> > has been broken forever (v2.6.31+) but obviously doesn't trigger in
> > most configurations.
>
> So why is this a bugfix? If cpu == WORK_CPU_UNBOUND, then things
> _shouldn't_ care which cpu it gets run on.

UNBOUND means not fixed to a processor. The system should have
freedom to schedule unbound work requests anywhere it wants. This is
something we also want for the NOHZ work in order to move things like
these workqueue items to processors that are not supposed to be low
latency.

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[GIT PULL] workqueue fixes for v4.3-rc5 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-10-14 00:00 +0200
  Re: [GIT PULL] workqueue fixes for v4.3-rc5 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2015-10-14 18:40 +0200
    Re: [GIT PULL] workqueue fixes for v4.3-rc5 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-10-14 19:00 +0200
      Re: [GIT PULL] workqueue fixes for v4.3-rc5 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2015-10-14 19:40 +0200
        Re: [GIT PULL] workqueue fixes for v4.3-rc5 Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> - 2015-10-14 20:00 +0200
          Re: [GIT PULL] workqueue fixes for v4.3-rc5 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2015-10-14 20:40 +0200
            Re: [GIT PULL] workqueue fixes for v4.3-rc5 Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> - 2015-10-14 21:00 +0200
            Re: [GIT PULL] workqueue fixes for v4.3-rc5 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2015-10-14 21:10 +0200
        Re: [GIT PULL] workqueue fixes for v4.3-rc5 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-10-14 21:10 +0200
          Re: [GIT PULL] workqueue fixes for v4.3-rc5 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2015-10-14 21:20 +0200
            Re: [GIT PULL] workqueue fixes for v4.3-rc5 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-10-14 21:40 +0200
              Re: [GIT PULL] workqueue fixes for v4.3-rc5 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2015-10-14 22:20 +0200
                Re: [GIT PULL] workqueue fixes for v4.3-rc5 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-10-14 22:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] vmstat_update: ensure work remains on the same core Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2015-10-16 22:00 +0200
    Re: [GIT PULL] workqueue fixes for v4.3-rc5 Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> - 2015-10-14 20:10 +0200
      Re: [GIT PULL] workqueue fixes for v4.3-rc5 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2015-10-14 20:50 +0200
        Re: [GIT PULL] workqueue fixes for v4.3-rc5 Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> - 2015-10-14 21:00 +0200
          Re: [GIT PULL] workqueue fixes for v4.3-rc5 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2015-10-14 21:20 +0200

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