Hello, On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 03:11:20PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > Both rpciod and nfsiod already set WQ_MEM_RECLAIM. > > But, right, looking at kernel/workqueue.c, it seems that the dedicated > "rescuer" threads are invoked only in the case when work is stalled > because a new worker thread isn't allocated quickly enough. Because that's the *only* case where progress can't be guaranteed otherwise. > So, what to do that's simplest enough that it would work for > post-rc2/stable? I was happy having just a simple dedicated > thread--these are only started when nfsd is, so there's no real thread > proliferation problem. The analysis is likely completely wrong, so please don't go off doing something unnecessary. Please take look at what's causing the deadlocks again. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html