Instead of grabbing the lock at the start of the checkerloop and releasing it at the end we should be holding it only during the time when we actually need it. Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx> --- multipathd/main.c | 16 ++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/multipathd/main.c b/multipathd/main.c index f876258..9e7bf4f 100644 --- a/multipathd/main.c +++ b/multipathd/main.c @@ -1399,32 +1399,40 @@ checkerloop (void *ap) if (gettimeofday(&start_time, NULL) != 0) start_time.tv_sec = 0; - pthread_cleanup_push(cleanup_lock, &vecs->lock); - lock(vecs->lock); - pthread_testcancel(); condlog(4, "tick"); #ifdef USE_SYSTEMD if (use_watchdog) sd_notify(0, "WATCHDOG=1"); #endif if (vecs->pathvec) { + pthread_cleanup_push(cleanup_lock, &vecs->lock); + lock(vecs->lock); + pthread_testcancel(); vector_foreach_slot (vecs->pathvec, pp, i) { num_paths += check_path(vecs, pp); } + lock_cleanup_pop(vecs->lock); } if (vecs->mpvec) { + pthread_cleanup_push(cleanup_lock, &vecs->lock); + lock(vecs->lock); + pthread_testcancel(); defered_failback_tick(vecs->mpvec); retry_count_tick(vecs->mpvec); + lock_cleanup_pop(vecs->lock); } if (count) count--; else { + pthread_cleanup_push(cleanup_lock, &vecs->lock); + lock(vecs->lock); + pthread_testcancel(); condlog(4, "map garbage collection"); mpvec_garbage_collector(vecs); count = MAPGCINT; + lock_cleanup_pop(vecs->lock); } - lock_cleanup_pop(vecs->lock); if (start_time.tv_sec && gettimeofday(&end_time, NULL) == 0 && num_paths) { -- 1.8.4.5 -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel