[PATCH 3.4 054/146] nfs: fix high load average due to callback thread sleeping

lizf
2015-09-15T09:08:31Z

From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@poochiereds.net>

3.4.109-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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commit 5d05e54af3cdbb13cf19c557ff2184781b91a22c upstream.

Chuck pointed out a problem that crept in with commit 6ffa30d3f734 (nfs:
don't call blocking operations while !TASK_RUNNING). Linux counts tasks
in uninterruptible sleep against the load average, so this caused the
system's load average to be pinned at at least 1 when there was a
NFSv4.1+ mount active.

Not a huge problem, but it's probably worth fixing before we get too
many complaints about it. This patch converts the code back to use
TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE sleep, simply has it flush any signals on each loop
iteration. In practice no one should really be signalling this thread at
all, so I think this is reasonably safe.

With this change, there's also no need to game the hung task watchdog so
we can also convert the schedule_timeout call back to a normal schedule.

Reported-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jeff.layton@primarydata.com>
Tested-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Fixes: commit 6ffa30d3f734 (“nfs: don't call blocking . . .”)
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
[lizf: Backported to 3.4: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
---
fs/nfs/callback.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/nfs/callback.c b/fs/nfs/callback.c
index 07c056c..0184e91 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/callback.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/callback.c
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ nfs41_callback_svc(void *vrqstp)
set_freezable();

while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
- prepare_to_wait(&serv->sv_cb_waitq, &wq, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
+ prepare_to_wait(&serv->sv_cb_waitq, &wq, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
spin_lock_bh(&serv->sv_cb_lock);
if (!list_empty(&serv->sv_cb_list)) {
req = list_first_entry(&serv->sv_cb_list,
@@ -163,10 +163,10 @@ nfs41_callback_svc(void *vrqstp)
error);
} else {
spin_unlock_bh(&serv->sv_cb_lock);
- /* schedule_timeout to game the hung task watchdog */
- schedule_timeout(60 * HZ);
+ schedule();
finish_wait(&serv->sv_cb_waitq, &wq);
}
+ flush_signals(current);
}
return 0;
}
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1.9.1