Re: [PATCHSET] workqueue: break local execution guarantee of unbound work items

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Wed Feb 10 2016 - 10:57:33 EST


Hello, Jiri.

On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 09:01:38AM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> Thanks all for sorting the issue out. Now it remains to decide what
> should go to stable. Given only 0001 is marked as "Fixes", is that enough?

I think so. The other two are primarily for debugging anyway.

> And what about the vmstat fix:
> commit 176bed1de5bf977938cad26551969eca8f0883b1
> Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu Oct 15 13:01:50 2015 -0700
>
> vmstat: explicitly schedule per-cpu work on the CPU we need it to run on
>
> ? It should fix better than what 0001 is reverting AFAIU, right?

Yes, definitely. Didn't know that one wasn't tagged for stable.

Thanks.

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tejun