On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 03:12:52PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > My question to Tejun is, if we create another workqueue, to add the > rdata->work to, would that prevent the above problem? Or what other > fixes can we do? The way I understand workqueues is that we cannot guarantee concurrency like this. It tries, but there's no guarantee. WQ_MAX_ACTIVE seems to be a hard upper limit of concurrent workers. So given 511 other blocked works, the described problem will always happen. Creating another workqueue doesn't actually create more threads. There is the kthread_work stuff for if you want a guaranteed worker thread. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
