On Fri, 10 Jul 2015, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > Note that nohz full is perfectly fine with that. The issue I'm worried about > is the case where drivers spawn hundreds of jobs and it all happen on the same > node because the kernel threads inherit the workqueue affinity, instead of > the global affinity that khelper had.
Well if this is working as intended here then the kernel threads will only run on a specific cpu. As far as we can tell the amout of kernel threads spawned is rather low and also the performance requirements on those threads are low. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
