percpu_ida: fix a live lock
steal_tags only happens when free tags is more than half of the total
tags. This is too strict and can cause live lock. I found that if one
cpu has free tags, but other cpu can't steal (thread is bound to
specific cpus), threads which want to allocate tags are always
sleeping. I found this when I run next patch, but this could happen
without it I think.
I did performance test too with null_blk. Two cases (each cpu has enough
percpu tags, or total tags are limited), no performance changes were
observed.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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