linux-kernel - Re: wait_for_completion

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Date:	Thu, 01 Mar 2007 17:39:23 +0200
From:	Eli Cohen <eli@...lanox.co.il>
To:	Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@...il.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: wait_for_completion_timeout problem ???

On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 16:14 +0100, Dmitry Adamushko wrote:

> Mea culpa. Don't know why I took it as 10 ms.. Yep, in case of seconds
> it rather becomes a mere theoretical possibility.
> 
> Are you sure there are no other "waiters" being blocked on the same
> "completion" at the same time? complete_all()?
> 
> Anyway, do "cat /proc/your_task_pid/status" and look at the "State: "
> field. It should be "R" in case wake_up_*() was called for this task.
> 

Thanks for your good advices. Right now it seems that increasing the
timeout to 60 sec did the trick :-)
The test I was running has many threads and maybe there is starvation of
tasks. The system is also not too responsive to say the least.
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