From 90f023030e26ce8f981b3e688cb79329d8d07cc3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frederic Weisbecker Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 15:38:22 -0700 Subject: kmod: use system_unbound_wq instead of khelper We need to launch the usermodehelper kernel threads with the widest affinity and this is partly why we use khelper. This workqueue has unbound properties and thus a wide affinity inherited by all its children. Now khelper also has special properties that we aren't much interested in: ordered and singlethread. There is really no need about ordering as all we do is creating kernel threads. This can be done concurrently. And singlethread is a useless limitation as well. The workqueue engine already proposes generic unbound workqueues that don't share these useless properties and handle well parallel jobs. The only worrysome specific is their affinity to the node of the current CPU. It's fine for creating the usermodehelper kernel threads but those inherit this affinity for longer jobs such as requesting modules. This patch proposes to use these node affine unbound workqueues assuming that a node is sufficient to handle several parallel usermodehelper requests. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Rik van Riel Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Rusty Russell Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- init/main.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'init') diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c index 56506553d4d8..9e64d7097f1a 100644 --- a/init/main.c +++ b/init/main.c @@ -877,7 +877,6 @@ static void __init do_initcalls(void) static void __init do_basic_setup(void) { cpuset_init_smp(); - usermodehelper_init(); shmem_init(); driver_init(); init_irq_proc(); -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b