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SubjectRe: [RFC] workqueue: avoiding unbounded wq on isolated CPUs by default
Hello,

On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 05:35:09PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> Initializing wq unbound cpumask to housekeeping_mask is still the
> plan. I just remember we didn't do it in Lai's series because it
> was slightly unrelated. When a patchset is complicated, like Lai's,
> it's better to keep it focus to a single purpose.
>
> Anyway that patch is welcome.

Ah, cool, can you ack it explicitly?

> > Yeah, I think I asked Lai to try a different approach where we
> > regulate it from queueing path rather than playing with pwqs. I think
> > that'd end up quite a bit simpler.
>
> Ordered workqueues aren't handled currently? I tried setting the unbound
> cpumask and it also applied to khelper which is a singlethread (and thus
> ordered) workqueue.

Hmmm... AFAICS, it shouldn't work.

Thanks.

--
tejun


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