[PATCH for-4.5 06/13] NVMe: Remove WQ_MEM_RECLAIM from nvme work queue
Christoph Hellwig
hch at infradead.org
Wed Feb 10 10:46:41 PST 2016
On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 11:17:23AM -0700, Keith Busch wrote:
> This isn't used for work in the memory reclaim path, and we may need
> to sync with work queues that also are not flagged memory relaim. This
> fixes a kernel warning if we ever do sync with such a work queue.
We do need it during memory reclaim: memory reclaim in general
does I/O, which can be on NVMe. We then need the workqueue to
abort a command or reset an overloaded controller to make progress.
Not having WQ_MEM_RECLAIM risks deadlocks in heavily loaded systems.
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