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Jeff Layton d9a3f2e5b1 nfs: fix high load average due to callback thread sleeping ...

commit 5d05e54af3 upstream.

Chuck pointed out a problem that crept in with commit 6ffa30d3f7 (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 6ffa30d3f7 (“nfs: don't call blocking . . .”)
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>

2015-05-06 10:36:20 +01:00

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