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authorFrederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>2015-09-09 15:38:22 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>2015-09-10 13:29:01 -0700
commit90f023030e26ce8f981b3e688cb79329d8d07cc3 (patch)
treec000e9501dabe18902380d25cedaaf6ceecc2a2f /tools/perf/scripts/python/Perf-Trace-Util/lib
parentb639e86bae431db3fbc9fae8d09a9bbf97b74711 (diff)
kmod: use system_unbound_wq instead of khelper
We need to launch the usermodehelper kernel threads with the widest affinity and this is partly why we use khelper. This workqueue has unbound properties and thus a wide affinity inherited by all its children. Now khelper also has special properties that we aren't much interested in: ordered and singlethread. There is really no need about ordering as all we do is creating kernel threads. This can be done concurrently. And singlethread is a useless limitation as well. The workqueue engine already proposes generic unbound workqueues that don't share these useless properties and handle well parallel jobs. The only worrysome specific is their affinity to the node of the current CPU. It's fine for creating the usermodehelper kernel threads but those inherit this affinity for longer jobs such as requesting modules. This patch proposes to use these node affine unbound workqueues assuming that a node is sufficient to handle several parallel usermodehelper requests. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]> Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Cc: Rusty Russell <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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