Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 Oct 2015 03:42:26 +0900 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mm,vmscan: Use accurate values for zone_reclaimable() checks |
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On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 05:49:22PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > I am confused. What makes rescuer to not run? Nothing seems to be > hogging CPUs, we are just out of workers which are loopin in the > allocator but that is preemptible context.
It's concurrency management. Workqueue thinks that the pool is making positive forward progress and doesn't schedule anything else for execution while that work item is burning cpu cycles.
Thanks.
-- tejun
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