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| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/workqueue.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c index 479d840db286..e5335c27d72e 100644 --- a/kernel/workqueue.c +++ b/kernel/workqueue.c @@ -3915,6 +3915,16 @@ struct workqueue_struct *__alloc_workqueue_key(const char *fmt, struct workqueue_struct *wq; struct pool_workqueue *pwq; + /* + * Unbound && max_active == 1 used to imply ordered, which is no + * longer the case on NUMA machines due to per-node pools. While + * alloc_ordered_workqueue() is the right way to create an ordered + * workqueue, keep the previous behavior to avoid subtle breakages + * on NUMA. + */ + if ((flags & WQ_UNBOUND) && max_active == 1) + flags |= __WQ_ORDERED; + /* see the comment above the definition of WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT */ if ((flags & WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT) && wq_power_efficient) flags |= WQ_UNBOUND; |