Re: [RFC v2 0/5] cgroup-aware unbound workqueues

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Tue Jun 11 2019 - 15:56:47 EST


Hello,

On Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 09:15:26AM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > Can you please go into more details on the use cases?
>
> If I remember correctly, the original Bandan's work was about using
> workqueues instead of kthreads in vhost.

For vhosts, I think it might be better to stick with kthread or
kthread_worker given that they can consume lots of cpu cycles over a
long period of time and we want to keep persistent track of scheduling
states.

Thanks.

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tejun