From: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 5c0338c68706be53b3dc472e4308961c36e4ece1 upstream.
The combination of WQ_UNBOUND and max_active == 1 used to imply
ordered execution. After NUMA affinity 4c16bd327c74 ("workqueue:
implement NUMA affinity for unbound workqueues"), this is no longer
true due to per-node worker pools.
While the right way to create an ordered workqueue is
alloc_ordered_workqueue(), the documentation has been misleading for a
long time and people do use WQ_UNBOUND and max_active == 1 for ordered
workqueues which can lead to subtle bugs which are very difficult to
trigger.
It's unlikely that we'd see noticeable performance impact by enforcing
ordering on WQ_UNBOUND / max_active == 1 workqueues. Let's
automatically set __WQ_ORDERED for those workqueues.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Alexei Potashnik <alexei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 4c16bd327c74 ("workqueue: implement NUMA affinity for unbound workqueues")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx>
---
kernel/workqueue.c | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index 66972ac..3f8558f 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -4213,6 +4213,16 @@ struct workqueue_struct *__alloc_workqueue_key(const char *fmt,
struct workqueue_struct *wq;
struct pool_workqueue *pwq;
+ /*
+ * Unbound && max_active == 1 used to imply ordered, which is no
+ * longer the case on NUMA machines due to per-node pools. While
+ * alloc_ordered_workqueue() is the right way to create an ordered
+ * workqueue, keep the previous behavior to avoid subtle breakages
+ * on NUMA.
+ */
+ if ((flags & WQ_UNBOUND) && max_active == 1)
+ flags |= __WQ_ORDERED;
+
/* allocate wq and format name */
if (flags & WQ_UNBOUND)
tbl_size = wq_numa_tbl_len * sizeof(wq->numa_pwq_tbl[0]);
--
2.8.0.rc2.1.gbe9624a