From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>, xfs-oss <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] xfs: mark the xfs-alloc workqueue as high priority
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 16:58:27 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54B5A313.2030300@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150113204633.GC9489@htj.dyndns.org>
On 1/13/15 2:46 PM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> So,
>
> nr_workers == 15,
> nr_idle == 0,
> nr_running == 0,
>
> That means one worker must be playing the role of manager by executing
> manage_workers() whic his also responsible for kicking off the
> rescuers if it fails to create new workers in a short period of time.
> The manager is identifier as the holder of pool->manager_arb and while
> a manager is trying to creat a worker, pool->mayday_timer must be
> armed continuously firing off every MAYDAY_INTERVAL summoning rescuers
> to the pool, which should be visible through the pool_pwq->mayday_node
> corresponding to the stalled pool being queued on wq->maydays.
>
> Can you post the full dump of the pool, wq and all kworkers?
>
> Thanks.
>
Just for mailing list archive posterity, Tejun thinks he's found the culprit
in the workqueue code, I or he can follow up again when he has a patch ready
to go.
Thanks Tejun!
-Eric
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-13 22:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-09 18:08 [PATCH 0/2] xfs: make xfs allocation workqueue per-mount, and high priority Eric Sandeen
2015-01-09 18:10 ` [PATCH 1/2] xfs: make global xfsalloc workqueue per-mount Eric Sandeen
2015-01-12 15:35 ` Brian Foster
2015-01-09 18:12 ` [PATCH 2/2] xfs: mark the xfs-alloc workqueue as high priority Eric Sandeen
2015-01-09 18:23 ` Tejun Heo
2015-01-09 20:36 ` Eric Sandeen
2015-01-10 19:28 ` Tejun Heo
2015-01-11 0:04 ` Eric Sandeen
2015-01-11 6:33 ` Tejun Heo
2015-01-12 20:09 ` Eric Sandeen
2015-01-12 22:53 ` Tejun Heo
2015-01-12 23:12 ` Eric Sandeen
2015-01-12 23:37 ` Tejun Heo
2015-01-13 19:08 ` Eric Sandeen
2015-01-13 20:19 ` Tejun Heo
2015-01-13 20:29 ` Eric Sandeen
2015-01-13 20:46 ` Tejun Heo
2015-01-13 22:58 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2015-01-13 23:35 ` [PATCH wq/for-3.19] workqueue: fix subtle pool management issue which can stall whole worker_pool Tejun Heo
2015-01-16 19:32 ` [PATCH workqueue wq/for-3.19-fixes] " Tejun Heo
2015-01-16 19:32 ` Tejun Heo
2015-01-19 2:15 ` Lai Jiangshan
2015-01-19 2:15 ` Lai Jiangshan
2015-01-09 23:28 ` [PATCH 2/2] xfs: mark the xfs-alloc workqueue as high priority Dave Chinner
2015-01-10 17:41 ` Tejun Heo
2015-01-12 3:30 ` Dave Chinner
2015-01-13 20:50 ` Tejun Heo
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