Re: [PATCH 1/4] workqueue: Use TASK_IDLE

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Wed Aug 23 2017 - 09:31:55 EST


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.

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tejun