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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] oprofile: Remove 'WQ on CPUx, prefer CPUy' warning
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 08:53:31PM +0200, Robert Richter wrote:
> Under certain workloads we see the following warnings:
>
> WQ on CPU0, prefer CPU1
> WQ on CPU0, prefer CPU2
> WQ on CPU0, prefer CPU3
>
> It warns the user that the wq to access a per-cpu buffers runs not on
> the same cpu. This happens if the wq is rescheduled on a different cpu
> than where the buffer is located. This was probably implemented to
> detect performance issues. Not sure if there actually is one as the
> buffers are copied to a single buffer anyway which should be the
> actual bottleneck.
>
> We wont change WQ implementation. Since a user can do nothing the
> warning is pointless. Removing it.

Looks good to me.

Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>

-Andi


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