Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] sched/wait: Introduce lock breaker in wake_up_page_bit

From: Tim Chen
Date: Tue Aug 29 2017 - 12:57:31 EST


On 08/29/2017 09:24 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 9:13 AM, Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> It is affecting not a production use, but the customer's acceptance
>> test for their systems. So I suspect it is a stress test.
>
> Can you gently poke them and ask if they might make theie stress test
> code available?
>
> Tell them that we have a fix, but right now it's delayed into 4.14
> because we have no visibility into what it is that it actually fixes,
> and whether it's all that critical or just some microbenchmark.
>

Thanks. We'll do that.

Tim