nfs: fix high load average due to callback thread sleeping

Chuck pointed out a problem that crept in with commit 6ffa30d3f734 (nfs:
don't call blocking operations while !TASK_RUNNING). Linux counts tasks
in uninterruptible sleep against the load average, so this caused the
system's load average to be pinned at at least 1 when there was a
NFSv4.1+ mount active.

Not a huge problem, but it's probably worth fixing before we get too
many complaints about it. This patch converts the code back to use
TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE sleep, simply has it flush any signals on each loop
iteration. In practice no one should really be signalling this thread at
all, so I think this is reasonably safe.

With this change, there's also no need to game the hung task watchdog so
we can also convert the schedule_timeout call back to a normal schedule.

Cc: <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Chuck Lever <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Chuck Lever <[email protected]>
Fixes: commit 6ffa30d3f734 (“nfs: don't call blocking . . .”)
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <[email protected]>

diff --git a/fs/nfs/callback.c b/fs/nfs/callback.c
index 351be9205bf889bd48bf6b1f39b195899e5ab141..8d129bb7355afbb2ca7f1904ff0263f604e86dd6 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/nfs/callback.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/callback.c
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ nfs41_callback_svc(void *vrqstp)
                if (try_to_freeze())
                        continue;
 
-               prepare_to_wait(&serv->sv_cb_waitq, &wq, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
+               prepare_to_wait(&serv->sv_cb_waitq, &wq, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
                spin_lock_bh(&serv->sv_cb_lock);
                if (!list_empty(&serv->sv_cb_list)) {
                        req = list_first_entry(&serv->sv_cb_list,
@@ -142,10 +142,10 @@ nfs41_callback_svc(void *vrqstp)
                                error);
                } else {
                        spin_unlock_bh(&serv->sv_cb_lock);
-                       /* schedule_timeout to game the hung task watchdog */
-                       schedule_timeout(60 * HZ);
+                       schedule();
                        finish_wait(&serv->sv_cb_waitq, &wq);
                }
+               flush_signals(current);
        }
        return 0;
 }