1. 19 Jul, 2017 1 commit
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      workqueue: restore WQ_UNBOUND/max_active==1 to be ordered · 5c0338c6
      Tejun Heo authored
      The combination of WQ_UNBOUND and max_active == 1 used to imply
      ordered execution.  After NUMA affinity 4c16bd32 ("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: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Reported-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
      Reported-by: default avatarAlexei Potashnik <alexei@purestorage.com>
      Fixes: 4c16bd32 ("workqueue: implement NUMA affinity for unbound workqueues")
      Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.10+
      5c0338c6
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