Re: [Bug #12650] Strange load average and ksoftirqd behavior with 2.6.29-rc2-git1

Damien Wyart
2009-02-15T10:43:38Z

* Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr> [2009-02-15 11:42]:
> > > Note that if the box you test this on is multi-core or HT, then interpreting
> > > traces is easier if there's just a single CPU to look at. In that case i'd
> > > suggest to reproduce with just a single core, by turning the second one off:

> > > echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online

> > > Or, if the problem only occurs with two cpus, restrict tracing to CPU#1:

> > > echo 2 > /debug/tracing/tracing_cpumask

> > The box I test on is HT, so I tried the first suggestion and it made the
> > problem much less visible (but not completely absent).

> > So I used "echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online" to go back to
> > HT mode and then it made the problem much more visible on CPU#1:
> > ksoftirqd/1 is running a lot and ksoftirqd/0 is almost normal. The load
> > average is about 0.80 and the total running time for ksoftirqd/1 is
> > almost one minute (and I booted on rc5 ten minutes ago)!

> > So I followed the tracing steps in the tutorial (with the 1 sec sleep),
> > which gave me this:
> > http://damien.wyart.free.fr/trace_2.6.29-rc5_ksoftirqd_prob.txt.gz

> Of course, I used your first suggestion (tracing on CPU#1) to get this
^^^^^
second !

> trace.

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Damien