RE: [Bug 172981] New: [bisected] SLAB: extreme load averages and over 2000 kworker threads

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On 2016.09.27 23:20 Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 02:18:42PM +0900, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 08:13:58PM -0700, Doug Smythies wrote:
>>> By the way, I can eliminate the problem by doing this:
>>> (see also: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172991)
>> 
>> I think that Johannes found the root cause of the problem and they
>> (Johannes and Vladimir) will solve the root cause.
>> 
>> However, there is something useful to do in SLAB side.
>> Could you test following patch, please?
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> ---------->8--------------
>> diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
>> index 0eb6691..39e3bf2 100644
>> --- a/mm/slab.c
>> +++ b/mm/slab.c
>> @@ -965,7 +965,7 @@ static int setup_kmem_cache_node(struct kmem_cache *cachep,
>>          * guaranteed to be valid until irq is re-enabled, because it will be
>>          * freed after synchronize_sched().
>>          */
>> -       if (force_change)
>> +       if (n->shared && force_change)
>>                 synchronize_sched();
>
> Oops...
>
> s/n->shared/old_shared/

Yes, that seems to work fine. After boot everything is good.
Then I tried and tried to get it to mess up, but could not.


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