[PATCH 2/2] xfs: mark the xfs-alloc workqueue as high priority

[Eric Sandeen]

On 1/12/15 4:53 PM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello, Eric.

Hi Tejun :)

> This doesn't look like the direct cause.  It could just be reclaim
> path going berserk as the filesystem can't writeout pages.  Can you
> dump all runnable tasks?  Was this the only runnable kworker?
> 
> Thanks.

The only tasks in RU state are the one I mentioned, and swapper/X.

crash> ps -m | grep RU
[0 00:00:00.159] [RU]  PID: 17056  TASK: c000000111cc0000  CPU: 8   COMMAND: "kworker/u112:1"
[4 19:11:44.360] [RU]  PID: 0      TASK: c0000000010416f0  CPU: 0   COMMAND: "swapper/0"
[4 19:11:44.192] [RU]  PID: 0      TASK: c000000633280000  CPU: 1   COMMAND: "swapper/1"
[4 19:11:44.192] [RU]  PID: 0      TASK: c0000006332c0000  CPU: 2   COMMAND: "swapper/2"
...

and I don't see anything interesting in those. :)

-Eric