[rds-devel] [PATCH v2 1/6] workqueue: Inherit NOIO and NOFS alloc flags

[Haakon Bugge]

Hi,


> On 16 May 2024, at 18:29, Tejun Heo <tj at kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>> When you say "deal with gfp flags directly", do you imply during WQ
>> creation or queuing work on one? I am OK with adding the other per-process
>> memory allocation flags, but that doesn's solve your initial issue ("if a
>> NOIO callers wants to scheduler a work item so that it can user
>> GFP_KERNEL").
> 
> It being a purely convenience feature, I don't think there's hard
> requirement on where this should go although I don't know where you'd carry
> this information if you tied it to each work item. And, please don't single
> out specific GFP flags. Please make the feature generic so that users who
> may need different GFP masking can also use it too. The underlying GFP
> feature is already like that. There's no reason to restrict it from
> workqueue side.


I am preparing a v3 which handles all PF_MEMALLOC* flags. The plan is to send it out tomorrow.


Thxs, Håkon