Re: Very high CPU load when idle with 3.0-rc1

Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-30T21:34:25Z

On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 14:28 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 07:19:49PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 09:23 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > sp.sched_priority = RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO;
> > > sched_setscheduler_nocheck(t, SCHED_FIFO, &sp);
> >
> > Why are those things RT tasks anyway? The old ksoftirq runs as a regular
> > task. And once you start boosting things you can boost this into FIFO as
> > well...
> >
> > just wondering..
>
> Because priority boosting doesn't help unless the callbacks also run
> RT priority.
>
> I could make it so that they ran as normal tasks if !RCU_BOOST, but
> they would still need to run as RT tasks for RCU_BOOST. I figured
> running them the same way in both cases would be simpler.

Ah, I thought you'd boost the threads along with the waiters, to the
same prio so that they wouldn't disturb higher priority tasks for no
reason.