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From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
	"Chen, Tim C" <tim.c.chen@intel.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Subject: Re: [bisected] pre-3.16 regression on open() scalability
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 20:38:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140619033816.GQ8178@tassilo.jf.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140619021337.GA4669@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 07:13:37PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 06:42:00PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > 
> > I still think it's totally the wrong direction to pollute so 
> > many fast paths with this obscure debugging check workaround
> > unconditionally.
> 
> OOM prevention should count for something, I would hope.

OOM in what scenario? This is getting bizarre.

If something keeps looping forever in the kernel creating 
RCU callbacks without any real quiescent states it's simply broken.

-Andi

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-06-19  3:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-13 20:04 [bisected] pre-3.16 regression on open() scalability Dave Hansen
2014-06-13 22:45 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-06-13 23:35   ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-14  2:03     ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-06-17 23:10   ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-18  0:00     ` Josh Triplett
2014-06-18  0:15     ` Andi Kleen
2014-06-18  1:04       ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-06-18  2:27         ` Andi Kleen
2014-06-18  4:47           ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-06-18 12:40             ` Andi Kleen
2014-06-18 12:56               ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-06-18 14:29       ` Christoph Lameter
2014-06-18  0:18     ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-06-18  6:33       ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-18 12:58         ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-06-18 17:36           ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-18 20:30             ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-06-18 23:51               ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-06-19  1:42                 ` Andi Kleen
2014-06-19  2:13                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-06-19  2:29                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-06-19  2:50                     ` Mike Galbraith
2014-06-19  4:19                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-06-19  3:38                     ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2014-06-19  4:19                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-06-19  5:24                         ` Mike Galbraith
2014-06-19 18:14                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-06-19  4:52                       ` Eric Dumazet
2014-06-19  5:23                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-06-19 14:42                   ` Christoph Lameter
2014-06-19 18:09                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-06-19 20:31                       ` Christoph Lameter
2014-06-19 20:42                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-06-19 20:50                           ` Andi Kleen
2014-06-19 21:03                             ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-06-19 21:13                           ` Christoph Lameter
2014-06-19 21:16                             ` Christoph Lameter
2014-06-19 21:32                               ` josh
2014-06-19 23:07                                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-06-20 15:20                                   ` Christoph Lameter
2014-06-20 15:38                                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-06-20 16:07                                       ` Christoph Lameter
2014-06-20 16:30                                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-06-20 17:39                                           ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-20 18:15                                             ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-06-18 21:48 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-06-18 22:03   ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-18 22:52     ` Paul E. McKenney

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