nfs: fix high load average due to callback thread sleeping
commit 5d05e54a upstream. Chuck pointed out a problem that crept in with commit 6ffa30d3 (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. Reported-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jeff.layton@primarydata.com> Tested-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Fixes: commit 6ffa30d3 (“nfs: don't call blocking . . .”) Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com> Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
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