Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: thousands of kworker processes with 4.7.x and 4.8-rc* | From | Mike Galbraith <> | Date | Sun, 25 Sep 2016 19:21:12 +0200 |
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On Sun, 2016-09-25 at 21:40 +0900, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> The problem is the allocator. > > -CONFIG_SLUB=y > +CONFIG_SLAB=y > > > With SLUB, I'm getting a handful of kworker processes, as expected. > > With SLAB, I'm getting thousands of kworker processes. > > > Not sure if that's expected behaviour or not.
I seriously doubt 1500+ kworkers piling up is expected.
4.7.0-rc4 47 4.7.0-rc5 1592
Presuming you didn't switch to SLAB and/or change userspace all around while testing, that would still indicate a kernel regression lurking between rc4 and rc5.
-Mike
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