On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 02:53:50PM +0300, Dan Aloni wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 07:37:49PM +0400, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > I don't know how to test this patch, the ack/nack from maintainer is wanted.
> >
> > flush_scheduled_work() is evil and should be avoided. Change tty_set_ldisc()
> > and release_dev() to use cancel_delayed_work_sync/cancel_work_sync.
> >
> > I am not sure we really need to call do_tty_hangup() when cancel_work_sync()
> > returns true, but this matches the current behaviour.
>
> I also noticed this problem recently with 2.6.22, on a 2-CPU box where there
> was one SCHED_RR userspace process stuck in a busy loop. The box was completely
IMHO, it was rather a busy sleep.
> responsive but had this annoyance where all tty closings were stuck in
> flush_scheduled_work(). It's especially noticable when you ssh to the machine
> and then try to log out.
>
> A temporary workaround was to give just the workqueue events/* threads a
> SCHED_FIFO static priority of 99, but I have kept that small patch to
> myself (figured it's just too nasty).
It looks like there was something more than this one SCHED_RR:
probably some high priority task(s) could have preempted workqueue
thread, delaying run_workqueues. Then it should be an interesting test
for this new, 2.6.23 scheduler.
Regards,
Jarek P.
PS: sorry for so delayed responsing.
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