Re: [PATCH 3/3] workqueue: Schedule work on non-idle cpu instead ofcurrent one

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Sep 25 2012 - 07:22:28 EST


On Tue, 2012-09-25 at 16:06 +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> @@ -1066,8 +1076,9 @@ int queue_work(struct workqueue_struct *wq,
> struct work_struct *work)
> {
> int ret;
>
> - ret = queue_work_on(get_cpu(), wq, work);
> - put_cpu();
> + preempt_disable();
> + ret = queue_work_on(wq_select_cpu(), wq, work);
> + preempt_enable();
>
> return ret;
> }

Right, so the problem I see here is that wq_select_cpu() is horridly
expensive..

> @@ -1102,7 +1113,7 @@ static void delayed_work_timer_fn(unsigned long
> __data)
> struct delayed_work *dwork = (struct delayed_work *)__data;
> struct cpu_workqueue_struct *cwq = get_work_cwq(&dwork->work);
>
> - __queue_work(smp_processor_id(), cwq->wq, &dwork->work);
> + __queue_work(wq_select_cpu(), cwq->wq, &dwork->work);
> }

Shouldn't timer migration have sorted this one?
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