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Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/24] workqueue: Generalize unbound CPU pods
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Hello,

On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 08:32:27AM +0530, K Prateek Nayak wrote:
> > Yeah, that's a bit surprising given that in terms of affinity behavior
> > "numa" should be identical to base. The only meaningful differences that I
> > can think of is when the work item is assigned to its worker and maybe how
> > pwq max_active limit is applied. Hmm... can you monitor the number of
> > kworker kthreads while running the benchmark? No need to do the whole
> > matrix, just comparing base against numa should be enough.
> 
> Sure. I'll get back to you with the data soon.

Any updates? I'd like to proceed with the patchset as it helps resolving
problems others are reporting. I can try to reproduce the results too if you
can share more details on how they're run.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun