Hello, On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 08:55:09PM +0000, Marciniszyn, Mike wrote: > The latter is the ipoib wq that conflicts with our non-WQ_MEM_RECLAIM. This seems excessive and pretty gratuitous. > > Tejun, what does "mem reclaim" really mean and when should it be used? That it may be depended during memory reclaim. > I was assuming that since we are freeing QP kernel memory held by user mode programs that could be oom killed, we need the flag. If it can't block memory reclaim, it doesn't need the flag. Just in case, if a workqueue is used to issue block IOs, it is depended upon for memory reclaim as writeback and swap-outs are critical parts of memory reclaim. Thanks. -- tejun
