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Subject: Re: [RFC] sched,livepatch: call stop_one_cpu in
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From:   Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
To:     Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
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On Mon, 2022-05-09 at 12:17 -0700, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> On Mon, May 09, 2022 at 03:10:16PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
>=20
>=20
> > Should kernel threads that can use a lot of CPU have
> > something in their outer loop to transition KLPs,
> > just like the idle task does?
>=20
> Maybe - I suppose this is the first time we've had an issue with
> CPU-bound kthreads.=C2=A0 I didn't know that was a thing ;-)
>=20
Kworkers have as much work as you want them to do, and with
things like btrfs compression that can be quite a bit.

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