From: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
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Pavel.Tatashin@microsoft.com, prasad.singamsetty@oracle.com,
rdunlap@infradead.org, steven.sistare@oracle.com,
tim.c.chen@intel.com, vbabka@suse.cz
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v4 05/13] workqueue, ktask: renice helper threads to prevent starvation
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 09:03:21 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181120170320.2qvlwnpohzxow4bm@ca-dmjordan1.us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181120163319.GW2509588@devbig004.ftw2.facebook.com>
On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 08:33:19AM -0800, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 08:45:54AM -0800, Daniel Jordan wrote:
> > So instead of flush_work_at_nice, how about this?:
> >
> > void renice_work_sync(work_struct *work, long nice);
>
> Wouldn't renice_or_cancel make more sense?
I guess you mean, for renicing if the work is started and canceling if it
hasn't?
Then yes, it would in this case, since if a ktask work hasn't start, there's no
point in running it--there are no more chunks for it to work on.
Was attempting to generalize for other cases when the work did need to be run,
but designing for the future can be dicey, and I'm fine either way. So absent
other opinions, I'll do renice_or_cancel.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-20 17:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-05 16:55 [RFC PATCH v4 00/13] ktask: multithread CPU-intensive kernel work Daniel Jordan
2018-11-05 16:55 ` [RFC PATCH v4 01/13] ktask: add documentation Daniel Jordan
2018-11-05 21:19 ` Randy Dunlap
2018-11-06 2:27 ` Daniel Jordan
2018-11-06 8:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-11-06 20:34 ` Daniel Jordan
2018-11-06 20:51 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2018-11-07 10:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-11-07 20:21 ` Daniel Jordan
2018-11-07 10:35 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-11-07 21:20 ` Daniel Jordan
2018-11-08 17:26 ` Jonathan Corbet
2018-11-08 19:15 ` Daniel Jordan
2018-11-08 19:24 ` Jonathan Corbet
2018-11-27 19:50 ` Pavel Machek
2018-11-28 16:56 ` Daniel Jordan
2018-11-05 16:55 ` [RFC PATCH v4 02/13] ktask: multithread CPU-intensive kernel work Daniel Jordan
2018-11-05 20:51 ` Randy Dunlap
2018-11-06 2:24 ` Daniel Jordan
2018-11-05 16:55 ` [RFC PATCH v4 03/13] ktask: add undo support Daniel Jordan
2018-11-05 16:55 ` [RFC PATCH v4 04/13] ktask: run helper threads at MAX_NICE Daniel Jordan
2018-11-05 16:55 ` [RFC PATCH v4 05/13] workqueue, ktask: renice helper threads to prevent starvation Daniel Jordan
2018-11-13 16:34 ` Tejun Heo
2018-11-19 16:45 ` Daniel Jordan
2018-11-20 16:33 ` Tejun Heo
2018-11-20 17:03 ` Daniel Jordan [this message]
2018-11-05 16:55 ` [RFC PATCH v4 06/13] vfio: parallelize vfio_pin_map_dma Daniel Jordan
2018-11-05 21:51 ` Alex Williamson
2018-11-06 2:42 ` Daniel Jordan
2018-11-05 16:55 ` [RFC PATCH v4 07/13] mm: change locked_vm's type from unsigned long to atomic_long_t Daniel Jordan
2018-11-05 16:55 ` [RFC PATCH v4 08/13] vfio: remove unnecessary mmap_sem writer acquisition around locked_vm Daniel Jordan
2018-11-05 16:55 ` [RFC PATCH v4 09/13] vfio: relieve mmap_sem reader cacheline bouncing by holding it longer Daniel Jordan
2018-11-05 16:55 ` [RFC PATCH v4 10/13] mm: enlarge type of offset argument in mem_map_offset and mem_map_next Daniel Jordan
2018-11-05 16:55 ` [RFC PATCH v4 11/13] mm: parallelize deferred struct page initialization within each node Daniel Jordan
2018-11-10 3:48 ` Elliott, Robert (Persistent Memory)
2018-11-12 16:54 ` Daniel Jordan
2018-11-12 22:15 ` Elliott, Robert (Persistent Memory)
2018-11-19 16:01 ` Daniel Jordan
2018-11-27 0:12 ` Elliott, Robert (Persistent Memory)
2018-11-27 20:23 ` Daniel Jordan
2018-11-19 16:29 ` Daniel Jordan
2018-11-05 16:55 ` [RFC PATCH v4 12/13] mm: parallelize clear_gigantic_page Daniel Jordan
2018-11-05 16:55 ` [RFC PATCH v4 13/13] hugetlbfs: parallelize hugetlbfs_fallocate with ktask Daniel Jordan
2018-11-05 17:29 ` [RFC PATCH v4 00/13] ktask: multithread CPU-intensive kernel work Michal Hocko
2018-11-06 1:29 ` Daniel Jordan
2018-11-06 9:21 ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-07 20:17 ` Daniel Jordan
2018-11-05 18:49 ` Zi Yan
2018-11-06 2:20 ` Daniel Jordan
2018-11-06 2:48 ` Zi Yan
2018-11-06 19:00 ` Daniel Jordan
2018-11-30 19:18 ` Tejun Heo
2018-12-01 0:13 ` Daniel Jordan
2018-12-03 16:16 ` Tejun Heo
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