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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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  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-13 22:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ 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
2015-01-19  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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