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Re: [GIT PULL] workqueue fixes for v4.5-rc3

From Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [GIT PULL] workqueue fixes for v4.5-rc3
Date 2016-02-11 09:30 +0100
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On Wed, 10 Feb 2016, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 9:25 AM, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > * Officially break local execution guarantee of unbound work items and
> >   add a debug feature to flush out usages which depend on it.
> 
> Btw, should we try to do this for timers too? A debug option to make a
> regular "add_timer()" explicitly schedule things on another CPU, to
> figure out the cases that really should use "add_timer_on()"?

That certainly makes sense. So we should use a common debug option to force
the 'schedule remote' machinery for all interesting subsystems instead of
creating an extra option for each.

Thanks,

	tglx

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[GIT PULL] workqueue fixes for v4.5-rc3 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2016-02-10 18:30 +0100
  Re: [GIT PULL] workqueue fixes for v4.5-rc3 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-02-10 20:10 +0100
    Re: [GIT PULL] workqueue fixes for v4.5-rc3 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2016-02-11 09:30 +0100
      Re: [GIT PULL] workqueue fixes for v4.5-rc3 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-02-11 19:30 +0100
        Re: [GIT PULL] workqueue fixes for v4.5-rc3 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-02-11 20:00 +0100
        Re: [GIT PULL] workqueue fixes for v4.5-rc3 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2016-02-11 20:00 +0100

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