Re: High context switch rate, ksoftirqd's chewing cpu

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Fri Nov 30 2012 - 17:55:39 EST


Hello, again.

Can you please try this patch? Thanks!

diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index 042d221..26368ef 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -1477,7 +1477,10 @@ bool mod_delayed_work_on(int cpu, struct workqueue_struct *wq,
} while (unlikely(ret == -EAGAIN));

if (likely(ret >= 0)) {
- __queue_delayed_work(cpu, wq, dwork, delay);
+ if (!delay)
+ __queue_work(cpu, wq, &dwork->work);
+ else
+ __queue_delayed_work(cpu, wq, dwork, delay);
local_irq_restore(flags);
}

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