Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Jun 2004 13:19:55 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] active_load_balance() deadlock |
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On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > active_load_balance() looks susceptible to deadlock when busiest==rq. > Without the following patch, my 128-way box deadlocks consistently > during boot-time driver init.
Makes sense. The regular "load_balance()" already has that test, although it also makes it a WARN_ON() for some unexplained reason (I assume find_busiest_group() isn't supposed to find the local group, although it doesn't seem to be documented anywhere).
Ingo, Andrew?
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