From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>,
John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] mm, slab: reschedule cache_reap() on the same CPU
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 13:23:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180410202353.GB793541@devbig577.frc2.facebook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d4983f13-2c02-6082-f980-a6623ab363e6@suse.cz>
Hello,
On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 10:13:33PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> > For percpu work items, they'll keep executing on the same cpu it
> > started on unless the cpu goes down while executing.
>
> Right, but before this patch, with just schedule_delayed_work() i.e.
> non-percpu? If such work can migrate in the middle, the slab bug is
> potentially much more serious.
That's still per-cpu. The only time the local binding breaks is when
the kernel is explicitly told to do so through explicit unbound_mask
or force_rr debug option.
Thanks.
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-10 20:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-10 8:15 [RFC] mm, slab: reschedule cache_reap() on the same CPU Vlastimil Babka
2018-04-10 14:12 ` Christopher Lameter
2018-04-10 14:17 ` Tejun Heo
2018-04-10 19:40 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-04-10 19:53 ` Tejun Heo
2018-04-10 20:13 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-04-10 20:23 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2018-04-11 7:00 ` [PATCH] " Vlastimil Babka
2018-04-11 10:53 ` Pekka Enberg
2018-04-11 13:41 ` Christopher Lameter
2018-04-12 0:47 ` Minchan Kim
2018-04-13 8:44 ` Vlastimil Babka
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