From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754078AbdHWNbv (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Aug 2017 09:31:51 -0400 Received: from mail-qk0-f179.google.com ([209.85.220.179]:38855 "EHLO mail-qk0-f179.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753973AbdHWNbt (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Aug 2017 09:31:49 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 06:31:40 -0700 From: Tejun Heo To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: mingo@kernel.org, byungchul.park@lge.com, boqun.feng@gmail.com, david@fromorbit.com, johannes@sipsolutions.net, oleg@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] workqueue: Use TASK_IDLE Message-ID: <20170823133140.GI491396@devbig577.frc2.facebook.com> References: <20170823115843.662056844@infradead.org> <20170823121432.788461761@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170823121432.788461761@infradead.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 01:58:44PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > Workqueues don't use signals, it (ab)uses TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE to avoid > increasing the loadavg numbers. We've 'recently' introduced TASK_IDLE > for this case: > > 80ed87c8a9ca ("sched/wait: Introduce TASK_NOLOAD and TASK_IDLE") > > use it. Applied to wq/for-4.14. Thanks. -- tejun