From: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
To: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, Qian Cai <cai@redhat.com>,
Vincent Donnefort <vincent.donnefort@arm.com>,
Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>,
Lai Jiangshan <laijs@linux.alibaba.com>,
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip V3 8/8] workqueue: Fix affinity of kworkers when attaching into pool
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2020 18:13:03 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJhGHyCvnj1w=yO45_HxD8dgy=Xa1vUw9wsnJKtfDX2Jkm5FsQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201229100639.2086-1-hdanton@sina.com>
On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 6:06 PM Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 26 Dec 2020 10:51:16 +0800
> > From: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@linux.alibaba.com>
> >
> > When worker_attach_to_pool() is called, we should not put the workers
> > to pool->attrs->cpumask when there is not CPU online in it.
> >
> > We have to use wq_online_cpumask in worker_attach_to_pool() to check
> > if pool->attrs->cpumask is valid rather than cpu_online_mask or
> > cpu_active_mask due to gaps between stages in cpu hot[un]plug.
>
> In 5/8 pool->attrs->cpumask is not restored to avoid triggering
> the warning added in e9d867a67fd03ccc ("sched: Allow
> per-cpu kernel threads to run on online && !active"), is it likely
> needed to repeat that trick here?
> Is the above gap no longer existing here at the presence of
> wq_online_cpumask?
It still exists. When online, wq_online_cpumask is always
cpu_online_mask, no thing changed.
An alternative way is to move the code into a work item, which adds
the proper protection against cpu hotlug and does the work.
I don't want to add too much complex in this patchset.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-29 10:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-26 2:51 [PATCH -tip V3 0/8] workqueue: break affinity initiatively Lai Jiangshan
2020-12-26 2:51 ` [PATCH -tip V3 1/8] workqueue: use cpu_possible_mask instead of cpu_active_mask to break affinity Lai Jiangshan
2020-12-26 2:51 ` [PATCH -tip V3 2/8] workqueue: Manually break affinity on pool detachment Lai Jiangshan
2020-12-26 2:51 ` [PATCH -tip V3 3/8] workqueue: introduce wq_online_cpumask Lai Jiangshan
2021-01-04 13:56 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-01-05 2:41 ` Lai Jiangshan
2021-01-05 2:53 ` Lai Jiangshan
2021-01-05 8:23 ` Lai Jiangshan
2021-01-05 13:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-01-05 14:37 ` Lai Jiangshan
2021-01-05 14:40 ` Lai Jiangshan
2021-01-05 16:24 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-12-26 2:51 ` [PATCH -tip V3 4/8] workqueue: use wq_online_cpumask in restore_unbound_workers_cpumask() Lai Jiangshan
2020-12-26 2:51 ` [PATCH -tip V3 5/8] workqueue: Manually break affinity on hotplug for unbound pool Lai Jiangshan
[not found] ` <20201226101631.5448-1-hdanton@sina.com>
2020-12-27 14:04 ` Lai Jiangshan
2020-12-26 2:51 ` [PATCH -tip V3 6/8] workqueue: reorganize workqueue_online_cpu() Lai Jiangshan
2020-12-26 2:51 ` [PATCH -tip V3 7/8] workqueue: reorganize workqueue_offline_cpu() unbind_workers() Lai Jiangshan
2020-12-26 2:51 ` [PATCH -tip V3 8/8] workqueue: Fix affinity of kworkers when attaching into pool Lai Jiangshan
[not found] ` <20201229100639.2086-1-hdanton@sina.com>
2020-12-29 10:13 ` Lai Jiangshan [this message]
2021-01-08 11:46 ` [PATCH -tip V3 0/8] workqueue: break affinity initiatively Peter Zijlstra
2021-01-11 10:07 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-01-11 11:01 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-01-11 15:00 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-01-11 17:16 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-01-11 18:09 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-01-11 21:50 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-01-12 17:14 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-01-12 23:53 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-01-15 9:11 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-01-15 13:04 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-01-16 6:00 ` Lai Jiangshan
2021-01-11 19:21 ` Valentin Schneider
2021-01-11 20:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-01-11 22:47 ` Valentin Schneider
2021-01-12 4:33 ` Lai Jiangshan
2021-01-12 14:53 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-01-12 15:38 ` Lai Jiangshan
2021-01-13 11:10 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-01-13 12:00 ` Lai Jiangshan
2021-01-13 12:57 ` Lai Jiangshan
2021-01-12 17:52 ` Valentin Schneider
2021-01-12 14:57 ` Jens Axboe
2021-01-12 15:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
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