Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] workqueue: Introduce PF_WQ_RESCUE_WORKER

[Tejun Heo]

On Wed, Dec 13, 2023 at 07:32:10PM +0100, Juri Lelli wrote:
> > Maybe the easiest way to do this is making rescuer_thread() restore the wq's
> > cpumask right before going to sleep, and making apply_wqattrs_commit() just
> > wake up the rescuer.
> 
> Hummm, don't think we can call that either while the rescuer is actually
> running. Maybe we can simply s/kthread_bind_mask/set_cpus_allowed_ptr/
> in the above?

So, we have to use set_cpus_allowed_ptr() but we still don't want to change
the affinity of a rescuer which is already running a task for a pool.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun