Hello, Neil. Sorry about the delay.
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 10:19:32AM +1100, NeilBrown wrote: > > Given that workder depletion is pool-wide > > event, maybe it'd make sense to trigger rescuers immediately while > > workers are in short supply? e.g. while there's a manager stuck in > > maybe_create_worker() with the mayday timer already triggered? > > So what if I change "need_more_worker" to "need_to_create_worker" ? > Then it will stop as soon as there in an idle worker thread. > That is the condition that keeps maybe_create_worker() looping. > ?? Yeah, that'd be a better condition and can work out. Can you please write up a patch to do that and do some synthetic tests excercising the code path? Also please cc Lai Jiangshan <[email protected]> when posting the patch. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
