Re: [PATCH] nbd: Don't use workqueue to handle recv work
From: Bart Van Assche
Date: Mon Dec 20 2021 - 12:10:19 EST
On 12/20/21 04:22, Xie Yongji wrote:
The rescuer thread might take over the works queued on
the workqueue when the worker thread creation timed out.
If this happens, we have no chance to create multiple
recv threads which causes I/O hung on this nbd device.
To fix it, this tries to create kthreads directly to
handle the recv work instead of using workqueue.
Why a kthread instead of only removing the WQ_MEM_RECLAIM flag from the
alloc_workqueue() call? This should have been explained in the patch
description. Additionally, a Fixes: tag is missing.
Thanks,
Bart.