[patch] zfs livelock and thread priorities

[Ben Kelly]

On Apr 29, 2009, at 7:58 AM, Ben Kelly wrote:
> On Apr 29, 2009, at 2:43 AM, Jaakko Heinonen wrote:
>> On 2009-04-28, Ben Kelly wrote:
>>>> http://www.wanderview.com/svn/public/misc/zfs/zfs_zinactive_deadlock.diff
>>>
>>> The patch is updated in the same location above.
>>
>> There's a fatal typo in the patch:
>>
>> -	ZFS_OBJ_HOLD_ENTER(zfsvfs, z_id);
>> +	locked == ZFS_OBJ_HOLD_TRYENTER(zfsvfs, z_id);
>>             ^^^^
>
> Yikes!  Thanks for catching this!
>
> The patch has been updated at the same URL.  If anyone has patched  
> their system please grab the new version.  Sorry for the confusion.

Argh!  The patch was still broken even after this fix.

Apparently when I tested my taskqueue solution I forgot to do a make  
installkernel.  For some reason the taskqueue approach deadlocks my  
server at home under normal conditions.  Therefore I have reverted the  
patch to use the simple return.  I still don't think this is the right  
solution, but I don't have time to completely figure out what is going  
on right now.

Again, sorry for the mess!

- Ben