Very large number of kworker/events_freezable_power_efficient threads being created when multipath -ll run

Issue

• Up to 60,000+ kworker events_freezable_power_efficient threads are present post running multipath -ll

  # multipath -ll &>/dev/null ; sleep 1 ; ps aux | grep freezable | wc -l
  14100
  
  # ps aux | grep freez
  root 1965999 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I Sep04 0:03 [kworker/21:2-events_freezable_power_]
  root 3376086 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I Sep05 0:01 [kworker/12:2-events_freezable]
  root 3633909 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I 01:55 0:00 [kworker/21:1-events_freezable_power_]
  :
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