From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Lukasz Dorau <lukasz.dorau@intel.com>,
James Bottomley <JBottomley@parallels.com>,
Andrzej Jakowski <andrzej.jakowski@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] kick ksoftirqd more often to please soft lockup detector
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 00:39:02 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120303083902.GC8270@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1330507023.11248.113.camel@twins>
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:17:03AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 14:16 -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> > Looks like everyone is guilty:
> >
> > [ 422.765336] softirq took longer than 1/4 tick: 3 NET_RX ffffffff813f0aa0
> > ...
> > [ 423.971878] softirq took longer than 1/4 tick: 4 BLOCK ffffffff812519c8
> > [ 423.985093] softirq took longer than 1/4 tick: 6 TASKLET ffffffff8103422e
> > [ 423.993157] softirq took longer than 1/4 tick: 7 SCHED ffffffff8105e2e1
> > [ 424.001018] softirq took longer than 1/4 tick: 9 RCU ffffffff810a0fed
> > [ 424.008691] softirq loop took longer than 1/2 tick need_resched:
>
> /me kicks himself for not printing the actual duration.. :-)
>
> > As expected whenever that 1/2 tick message gets emitted the softirq
> > handler is almost running in a need_resched() context.
>
> Yeah.. that's quite expected.
>
> > So is it a good idea to get more aggressive about scheduling ksoftrrqd?
>
> Nah, moving away from softirq more like. I'll put moving the
> load-balancer into a kthread on the todo list. And it looks like
> everybody else should move to kthreads too.
Last year when I tried that, things got a bit ugly. I guess I don't need
the kthreads to be realtime unless CONFIG_RCU_BOOST=y, maybe that will
help. Also IIRC Steven Rostedt made some real-time changes that might
help as well for my case, which would have a per-CPU RT kthread.
Thanx, Paul
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-03 8:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-27 20:38 [RFC PATCH] kick ksoftirqd more often to please soft lockup detector Dan Williams
2012-02-28 8:35 ` Yong Zhang
2012-02-28 9:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-02-28 16:48 ` Dan Williams
2012-02-28 21:41 ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-02-28 22:16 ` Dan Williams
2012-02-28 22:25 ` Dan Williams
2012-02-29 9:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-02-29 19:49 ` Dan Williams
2012-03-03 8:39 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
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