On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 01:51:03PM -0500, Chris Mason wrote: > I think we should be using WQ_MEM_RECLAIM to make sure this thread pool > makes progress when we're not able to allocate new workers. Thinking harder, it's probably best to just flag them all WQ_MEM_RECLAIM. This is what btrfs does, and it saves you from painful discoveries about how different queues depend on each other. Tejun did verify in the dump that progress on m_log_workqueue was stuck waiting for more threads. I'll start testing and send a v2. -chris _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs