On 02/26, Sapkal, Swapnil wrote: > > >Can you reproduce with "--process" rather than "--threads" ? > > > I was able to reproduce the issue with processes also. Total 33 processes > were sleeping out of which 20 were readers and 13 were writers. Thanks a lot. I am wondering what makes your machine (or .config?) special ;) A lot of people and robots tested this patch with these options. > The stack trace for main hackbench process is as follows: > > [<0>] do_wait+0xb5/0x110 Yes, this is clear, the main thread/process is not interesting. > I am trying to reproduce the issue with suggestions by Mateusz. Great. So far I still have no clue. Most probably I will ask you to do more testing after that, perhaps with some debugging patches. Thanks again for your help, Oleg.