Hello, Mike. On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 06:04:04PM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > workqueue: schedule WORK_CPU_UNBOUND work on wq_unbound_cpumask CPUs > > WORK_CPU_UNBOUND work items queued to a bound workqueue always run > locally. This is a good thing normally, but not when the user has > asked us to keep unbound work away from certain CPUs. Round robin > these to wq_unbound_cpumask CPUs instead, as perturbation avoidance > trumps performance. I don't think doing this by default for everyone is a good idea. A lot of workqueue usages tend to touch whatever the scheduler was touching after all. Doing things per-cpu is generally a pretty good thing. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html