Re: ipvs_syncmaster brings cpu to 100%

[Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>]

        Hello,

On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:

> Yes, the information in that thread is the same as what Luca said. It's
> a load average problem, not a CPU utilisation problem (those threads are
> sleeping!) If Luca could test the msleep_interruptible() version of the
> patch and it works (like I said, performance should not change, but the
> load average will drop to by 2), then I will ACK the patch for mainline
> acceptance.

        Agreed. It seems your initial conversion was based on wrong
assumptions, quoting you:

> Description: Use ssleep() instead of schedule_timeout() to guarantee the task
> delays as expected. The first two replacements use TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE but do
> not
> check for signals, so ssleep() should be appropriate.

        As all signals are blocked from daemonize and even explicitly
later it was not necessary to convert to non-interruptible variant.

Regards

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Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>