On Wed, 14 Oct 2015, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Tejun Heo <[email protected]> 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. -- 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/
