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  1. 17 Jul, 2012 1 commit
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      workqueue: perform cpu down operations from low priority cpu_notifier() · 65758202
      Tejun Heo authored 
      Currently, all workqueue cpu hotplug operations run off
CPU_PRI_WORKQUEUE which is higher than normal notifiers.  This is to
ensure that workqueue is up and running while bringing up a CPU before
other notifiers try to use workqueue on the CPU.

Per-cpu workqueues are supposed to remain working and bound to the CPU
for normal CPU_DOWN_PREPARE notifiers.  This holds mostly true even
with workqueue offlining running with higher priority because
workqueue CPU_DOWN_PREPARE only creates a bound trustee thread which
runs the per-cpu workqueue without concurrency management without
explicitly detaching the existing workers.

However, if the trustee needs to create new workers, it creates
unbound workers which may wander off to other CPUs while
CPU_DOWN_PREPARE notifiers are in progress.  Furthermore, if the CPU
down is cancelled, the per-CPU workqueue may end up with workers which
aren't bound to the CPU.

While reliably reproducible with a convoluted artificial test-case
involving scheduling and flushing CPU burning work items from CPU down
notifiers, this isn't very likely to happen in the wild, and, even
when it happens, the effects are likely to be hidden by the following
successful CPU down.

Fix it by using different priorities for up and down notifiers - high
priority for up operations and low priority for down operations.

Workqueue cpu hotplug operations will soon go through further cleanup.
Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: default avatar"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
      65758202
  3. 14 Jul, 2012 2 commits
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      workqueue: reimplement WQ_HIGHPRI using a separate worker_pool · 3270476a
      Tejun Heo authored 
      WQ_HIGHPRI was implemented by queueing highpri work items at the head
of the global worklist.  Other than queueing at the head, they weren't
handled differently; unfortunately, this could lead to execution
latency of a few seconds on heavily loaded systems.

Now that workqueue code has been updated to deal with multiple
worker_pools per global_cwq, this patch reimplements WQ_HIGHPRI using
a separate worker_pool.  NR_WORKER_POOLS is bumped to two and
gcwq->pools[0] is used for normal pri work items and ->pools[1] for
highpri.  Highpri workers get -20 nice level and has 'H' suffix in
their names.  Note that this change increases the number of kworkers
per cpu.

POOL_HIGHPRI_PENDING, pool_determine_ins_pos() and highpri chain
wakeup code in process_one_work() are no longer used and removed.

This allows proper prioritization of highpri work items and removes
high execution latency of highpri work items.

v2: nr_running indexing bug in get_pool_nr_running() fixed.

v3: Refreshed for the get_pool_nr_running() update in the previous
    patch.
Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: default avatarJosh Hunt <joshhunt00@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <CAKA=qzaHqwZ8eqpLNFjxnO2fX-tgAOjmpvxgBFjv6dJeQaOW1w@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
      3270476a
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      workqueue: introduce NR_WORKER_POOLS and for_each_worker_pool() · 4ce62e9e
      Tejun Heo authored 
      Introduce NR_WORKER_POOLS and for_each_worker_pool() and convert code
paths which need to manipulate all pools in a gcwq to use them.
NR_WORKER_POOLS is currently one and for_each_worker_pool() iterates
over only @gcwq->pool.

Note that nr_running is per-pool property and converted to an array
with NR_WORKER_POOLS elements and renamed to pool_nr_running.  Note
that get_pool_nr_running() currently assumes 0 index.  The next patch
will make use of non-zero index.

The changes in this patch are mechanical and don't caues any
functional difference.  This is to prepare for multiple pools per
gcwq.

v2: nr_running indexing bug in get_pool_nr_running() fixed.

v3: Pointer to array is stupid.  Don't use it in get_pool_nr_running()
    as suggested by Linus.
Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      4ce62e9e
  5. 12 Jul, 2012 4 commits
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      workqueue: separate out worker_pool flags · 11ebea50
      Tejun Heo authored 
      GCWQ_MANAGE_WORKERS, GCWQ_MANAGING_WORKERS and GCWQ_HIGHPRI_PENDING
are per-pool properties.  Add worker_pool->flags and make the above
three flags per-pool flags.

The changes in this patch are mechanical and don't caues any
functional difference.  This is to prepare for multiple pools per
gcwq.
Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      11ebea50
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      workqueue: use @pool instead of @gcwq or @cpu where applicable · 63d95a91
      Tejun Heo authored 
      Modify all functions which deal with per-pool properties to pass
around @pool instead of @gcwq or @cpu.

The changes in this patch are mechanical and don't caues any
functional difference.  This is to prepare for multiple pools per
gcwq.
Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      63d95a91
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      workqueue: factor out worker_pool from global_cwq · bd7bdd43
      Tejun Heo authored 
      Move worklist and all worker management fields from global_cwq into
the new struct worker_pool.  worker_pool points back to the containing
gcwq.  worker and cpu_workqueue_struct are updated to point to
worker_pool instead of gcwq too.

This change is mechanical and doesn't introduce any functional
difference other than rearranging of fields and an added level of
indirection in some places.  This is to prepare for multiple pools per
gcwq.

v2: Comment typo fixes as suggested by Namhyung.
Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
      bd7bdd43
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      workqueue: don't use WQ_HIGHPRI for unbound workqueues · 974271c4
      Tejun Heo authored 
      Unbound wqs aren't concurrency-managed and try to execute work items
as soon as possible.  This is currently achieved by implicitly setting
%WQ_HIGHPRI on all unbound workqueues; however, WQ_HIGHPRI
implementation is about to be restructured and this usage won't be
valid anymore.

Add an explicit chain-wakeup path for unbound workqueues in
process_one_work() instead of piggy backing on %WQ_HIGHPRI.
Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      974271c4
  7. 11 Jul, 2012 33 commits
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