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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: 25% cpu usage during idle
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:34:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C50862B.5070000@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100728192608.GB21304@wavehammer.waldi.eu.org>

  On 07/28/2010 12:26 PM, Bastian Blank wrote:
> A new pvops kernel (78b55f90e72348e231092dbe3e50ac7414b9e1af) needs around 25%
> cpu while being idle with 32 guest domains in event and ksoftirq kernel
> threads:

My guesses at filling in the blanks:

    * this is dom0
    * this is a 12 core host
    * you mean 25% of one core, not 25% of all available cpu power
    * no other dom0 processes are using any cpu time
    * the guest domains are PV, with one disk and net device each
    * they're all idle, with no cpu, net or disk traffic
    * this behaviour is new to this kernel

Is that correct?

What was the last kernel which didn't have this behaviour?

Does it get better or worse when you have fewer vcpus in dom0?

How do the interrupt counts in /proc/interrupts change?

Thanks,
     J

> | root         4  3.6  0.0      0     0 ?        S    21:08   0:26 [ksoftirqd/0]
> | root         7  8.6  0.0      0     0 ?        S    21:08   1:03 [ksoftirqd/1]
> | root        10  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    21:08   0:00 [ksoftirqd/2]
> | root        13  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    21:08   0:00 [ksoftirqd/3]
> | root        16  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    21:08   0:00 [ksoftirqd/4]
> | root        19  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    21:08   0:00 [ksoftirqd/5]
> | root        22  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    21:08   0:00 [ksoftirqd/6]
> | root        25  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    21:08   0:00 [ksoftirqd/7]
> | root        28  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    21:08   0:00 [ksoftirqd/8]
> | root        31  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    21:08   0:00 [ksoftirqd/9]
> | root        34  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    21:08   0:00 [ksoftirqd/10]
> | root        37  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    21:08   0:00 [ksoftirqd/11]
> | root        39  1.3  0.0      0     0 ?        S    21:08   0:09 [events/0]
> | root        40 14.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    21:08   1:44 [events/1]
> | root        41  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    21:08   0:00 [events/2]
> | root        42  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    21:08   0:00 [events/3]
> | root        43  0.1  0.0      0     0 ?        S    21:08   0:00 [events/4]
> | root        44  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    21:08   0:00 [events/5]
> | root        45  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    21:08   0:00 [events/6]
> | root        46  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    21:08   0:00 [events/7]
> | root        47  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    21:08   0:00 [events/8]
> | root        48  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    21:08   0:00 [events/9]
> | root        49  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    21:08   0:00 [events/10]
> | root        50  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    21:08   0:00 [events/11]
>
> Bastian
>

  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-28 19:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-28 19:26 25% cpu usage during idle Bastian Blank
2010-07-28 19:34 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2010-09-23  0:12 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge

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