Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] workqueue: Introduce PF_WQ_RESCUE_WORKER
From: Tejun Heo
Date: Tue Dec 12 2023 - 15:16:20 EST
On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 07:06:48PM +0000, Aaron Tomlin wrote:
> I thought by design we want a rescuer kthread to execute on any CPU, no?
Well, it needs to be able to move around because it dynamically attaches to
the worker pool it's rescuing and needs to take on its cpumask, but it
doesn't have to be able to run on all cpus all the time.
Thanks.
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tejun