From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
To: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>,
"Gu, Zheng" <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>,
tangchen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>,
Hiroyuki KAMEZAWA <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] workqueue: retry on NUMA_NO_NODE when create_worker() fails
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 12:29:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHGf_=qB43133oCcU+k1oO+1OtK9EPniF5CJq4ZUh-u+z6hNbQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHGf_=ps80f47d3JdyaYt3iEEF-Ur_OxLS_R7q7cPA7yMO7Pag@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 11:05 AM, KOSAKI Motohiro
<kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 5:19 AM, Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> wrote:
>> A pwq bound to a specified node might be last long or even forever after
>> the node was offline. Especially when this pwq has some back-to-back work
>> items which requeue themselves and cause the pwq can't quit.
>>
>> This kinds of pwqs will cause their own pools busy and maybe create workers.
>> This pools will fail on create_worker() since the node is offline.
>>
>> This case is extremely rare, but it is possible. And we hope create_worker()
>> to be fault-tolerant in this case and other different cases when the node
>> is lack of memory, for example, create_worker() can try to allocate memory
>> from the whole system rather than only the target node, the most important
>> thing is making some progress.
>>
>> So the solution is that, when the create_worker() fails on a specified node,
>> it will retry with NUMA_NO_NODE for further allocation.
>
> The code looks correct. But I don't think this issue depend on node offlining.
> The allocation may also fail if node has no memory.
Oh, sorry. my comment is no correct. Please forget.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-12 17:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-12 10:19 [PATCH 0/5] workqueue: fix bug when numa mapping is changed Lai Jiangshan
2014-12-12 10:19 ` [PATCH 1/5] workqueue: fix memory leak in wq_numa_init() Lai Jiangshan
2014-12-12 17:12 ` Tejun Heo
2014-12-15 5:25 ` Lai Jiangshan
2014-12-12 10:19 ` [PATCH 2/5] workqueue: update wq_numa_possible_cpumask Lai Jiangshan
2014-12-12 17:18 ` Tejun Heo
2014-12-15 2:02 ` Lai Jiangshan
2014-12-25 20:16 ` Tejun Heo
2014-12-18 2:22 ` Lai Jiangshan
2014-12-12 10:19 ` [PATCH 3/5] workqueue: fixup existing pool->node Lai Jiangshan
2014-12-12 17:25 ` Tejun Heo
2014-12-15 1:23 ` Lai Jiangshan
2014-12-25 20:14 ` Tejun Heo
2015-01-13 7:08 ` Lai Jiangshan
2015-01-13 15:24 ` Tejun Heo
2014-12-12 10:19 ` [PATCH 4/5] workqueue: update NUMA affinity for the node lost CPU Lai Jiangshan
2014-12-12 17:27 ` Tejun Heo
2014-12-15 1:28 ` Lai Jiangshan
2014-12-25 20:17 ` Tejun Heo
2014-12-12 10:19 ` [PATCH 5/5] workqueue: retry on NUMA_NO_NODE when create_worker() fails Lai Jiangshan
2014-12-12 16:05 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2014-12-12 17:29 ` KOSAKI Motohiro [this message]
2014-12-12 17:29 ` Tejun Heo
2014-12-12 17:13 ` [PATCH 0/5] workqueue: fix bug when numa mapping is changed Yasuaki Ishimatsu
2014-12-15 1:34 ` Lai Jiangshan
2014-12-18 1:50 ` Yasuaki Ishimatsu
2014-12-13 16:27 ` [PATCH 0/4] workqueue: fix bug when numa mapping is changed v2 Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2014-12-13 16:30 ` [PATCH 1/4] workqueue: add a hook for node hotplug Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2014-12-13 16:33 ` [PATCH 2/4] workqueue: add warning if pool->node is offline Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2014-12-13 16:35 ` [PATCH 3/4] workqueue: remove per-node unbound pool when node goes offline Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2014-12-15 2:06 ` Lai Jiangshan
2014-12-15 2:06 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2014-12-13 16:38 ` [PATCH 4/4] workqueue: handle change in cpu-node relationship Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2014-12-15 2:12 ` Lai Jiangshan
2014-12-15 2:20 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2014-12-15 2:48 ` Lai Jiangshan
2014-12-15 2:55 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2014-12-15 3:30 ` Lai Jiangshan
2014-12-15 3:34 ` Lai Jiangshan
2014-12-15 4:04 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2014-12-15 5:19 ` Lai Jiangshan
2014-12-15 5:33 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2014-12-15 11:11 ` [PATCH 0/4] workqueue: fix memory allocation after numa mapping is changed v3 Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2014-12-15 11:14 ` [PATCH 1/4] workqueue:Fix unbound workqueue's node affinity detection Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2014-12-16 5:30 ` Lai Jiangshan
2014-12-16 7:32 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2014-12-16 7:54 ` Lai Jiangshan
2014-12-15 11:16 ` [PATCH 2/4] workqueue: update per-cpu workqueue's node affinity at,online-offline Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2014-12-16 5:32 ` Lai Jiangshan
2014-12-16 7:25 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2014-12-15 11:18 ` [PATCH 3/4] workqueue: Update workqueue's possible cpumask when a new node, coming up Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2014-12-16 7:49 ` Lai Jiangshan
2014-12-16 8:10 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2014-12-16 8:18 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2014-12-15 11:22 ` [PATCH 4/4] workqueue: Handle cpu-node affinity change at CPU_ONLINE Kamezawa Hiroyuki
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