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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst | 6 | ||||
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diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst b/Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst index e295835fc116..165ca73e8351 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst +++ b/Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst @@ -183,6 +183,12 @@ resources, scheduled and executed. BH work items cannot sleep. All other features such as delayed queueing, flushing and canceling are supported. +``WQ_PERCPU`` + Work items queued to a per-cpu wq are bound to a specific CPU. + This flag is the right choice when cpu locality is important. + + This flag is the complement of ``WQ_UNBOUND``. + ``WQ_UNBOUND`` Work items queued to an unbound wq are served by the special worker-pools which host workers which are not bound to any diff --git a/include/linux/workqueue.h b/include/linux/workqueue.h index 74b0042709cd..f19072605faa 100644 --- a/include/linux/workqueue.h +++ b/include/linux/workqueue.h @@ -401,6 +401,7 @@ enum wq_flags { * http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1480396 */ WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT = 1 << 7, + WQ_PERCPU = 1 << 8, /* bound to a specific cpu */ __WQ_DESTROYING = 1 << 15, /* internal: workqueue is destroying */ __WQ_DRAINING = 1 << 16, /* internal: workqueue is draining */ |