Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Feb 2016 09:18:59 +0100 (CET) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] workqueue fixes for v4.5-rc3 |
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On Wed, 10 Feb 2016, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 9:25 AM, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> wrote: > > > > * Officially break local execution guarantee of unbound work items and > > add a debug feature to flush out usages which depend on it. > > Btw, should we try to do this for timers too? A debug option to make a > regular "add_timer()" explicitly schedule things on another CPU, to > figure out the cases that really should use "add_timer_on()"?
That certainly makes sense. So we should use a common debug option to force the 'schedule remote' machinery for all interesting subsystems instead of creating an extra option for each.
Thanks,
tglx
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