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Frederic Weisbecker 90f023030e kmod: use system_unbound_wq instead of khelper
We need to launch the usermodehelper kernel threads with the widest
affinity and this is partly why we use khelper.  This workqueue has
unbound properties and thus a wide affinity inherited by all its children.

Now khelper also has special properties that we aren't much interested in:
ordered and singlethread.  There is really no need about ordering as all
we do is creating kernel threads.  This can be done concurrently.  And
singlethread is a useless limitation as well.

The workqueue engine already proposes generic unbound workqueues that
don't share these useless properties and handle well parallel jobs.

The only worrysome specific is their affinity to the node of the current
CPU.  It's fine for creating the usermodehelper kernel threads but those
inherit this affinity for longer jobs such as requesting modules.

This patch proposes to use these node affine unbound workqueues assuming
that a node is sufficient to handle several parallel usermodehelper
requests.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-10 13:29:01 -07:00
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acpi Merge branch 'pm-cpufreq' 2015-09-01 15:52:35 +02:00
asm-generic Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2015-09-08 17:52:23 -07:00
clocksource
crypto Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2015-09-08 12:41:25 -07:00
drm Merge branch 'drm-next' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux 2015-09-04 15:49:32 -07:00
dt-bindings Merge branch 'i2c/for-4.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux 2015-09-08 16:16:26 -07:00
keys PKCS#7: Appropriately restrict authenticated attributes and content type 2015-08-12 17:01:01 +01:00
kvm
linux kmod: use system_unbound_wq instead of khelper 2015-09-10 13:29:01 -07:00
math-emu
media media updates for v4.3-rc1 2015-09-05 18:21:14 -07:00
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misc cxl: Allow the kernel to trust that an image won't change on PERST. 2015-08-14 21:32:07 +10:00
net Changes for 4.3 2015-09-09 08:33:31 -07:00
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rdma Changes for 4.3 2015-09-09 08:33:31 -07:00
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soc IOMMU Updates for Linux v4.3 2015-09-08 17:22:35 -07:00
sound ALSA: hda - Fix missing inline for dummy snd_hdac_set_codec_wakeup() 2015-09-02 12:24:55 +02:00
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trace Mostly this is just clean ups and micro optimizations. 2015-09-08 14:04:14 -07:00
uapi proc: export idle flag via kpageflags 2015-09-10 13:29:01 -07:00
video libnvdimm for 4.3: 2015-09-08 14:35:59 -07:00
xen xen: features and fixes for 4.3-rc0 2015-09-08 11:46:48 -07:00
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