From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: rcu_preempt running flat out on idle desktop.
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 17:43:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130606154311.GA5688@somewhere> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130606153136.GA12823@redhat.com>
On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 11:31:36AM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 03:21:07AM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 05:10:26PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 11:02:08PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > >
> > > > > RCU options for this build are..
> > > > >
> > > > I can't reproduce that issue even with the above setting. Could you
> > > > please send me your whole config?
> > >
> > > http://paste.fedoraproject.org/11363/36813375/raw/
> >
> > Sorry it took me some time to get that config booting, I ran into
> > other unrelated crashes.
> >
> > So I'm observing the exact opposite than you: the processes appear to
> > have no load nor to consume cputime. Even if I use some dumb user loop.
> > Top don't even show it.
> >
> > I'm digging further and will tell you when I get more info.
>
> So I'm still seeing this on rc4.
>
> Here's my 'idle' firewall, just routing packets:
>
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
> 4405 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 400.0 0.0 52336:27 kworker/2:0
> 20968 davej 20 0 115m 1840 1092 R 400.0 0.1 2297:48 top
> 964 named 20 0 383m 32m 2896 S 400.0 1.7 81384:54 named
> 10 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 400.0 0.0 195403:05 rcu_preempt
> 20830 davej 20 0 125m 2172 1024 S 400.0 0.1 939:36.10 sshd
> 11 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 400.0 0.0 42644:33 rcuop/0
> 13 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 400.0 0.0 34729:04 rcuop/2
> 754 lighttpd 20 0 54640 2692 1732 S 400.0 0.1 35286:11 lighttpd
> 756 root 20 0 216m 10m 6116 S 400.0 0.5 34143:41 snmpd
> 35 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 400.0 0.0 12790:56 ksoftirqd/2
> 19893 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 400.0 0.0 12570:49 kworker/0:1
> 20059 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 400.0 0.0 4666:30 kworker/1:1
> 32 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 400.0 0.0 8780:22 watchdog/2
> 792 root 20 0 92220 2516 632 S 400.0 0.1 7821:28 sendmail
> 25 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 400.0 0.0 8780:21 watchdog/0
> 26 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 400.0 0.0 8780:22 watchdog/1
> 38 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 400.0 0.0 8780:22 watchdog/3
> 19167 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 400.0 0.0 7804:04 kworker/3:2
>
>
> Every process is either 400%, or 0%.
>
> Here's my desktop box, just writing this email:
>
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
> 10 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 200.0 0.0 35134:00 rcu_preempt
> 12 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 200.0 0.0 14059:47 rcuop/1
> 12528 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 200.0 0.0 1012:56 kworker/0:1
> 12999 davej 20 0 115m 1700 956 R 200.0 0.1 1:09.10 top
> 4799 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 200.0 0.0 3510:40 kworker/1:1
> 1 root 20 0 50760 5092 1648 S 0.0 0.2 3:14.96 systemd
> 2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 1:40.55 kthreadd
>
> Every process 200% or 0%.
I see, would you mind testing this branch?
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git
timers/urgent
It might help, I specially think about 45eacc692771bd2b1ea3d384e6345cab3da10861
("vtime: Use consistent clocks among nohz accounting") which fixes an issue
with cputime accounting that resulted in similar symptoms.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-06 15:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-08 20:30 rcu_preempt running flat out on idle desktop Dave Jones
2013-05-08 20:52 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-05-08 20:56 ` Dave Jones
2013-05-08 21:16 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-05-08 21:17 ` Dave Jones
2013-05-08 22:20 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-05-09 9:04 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-05-09 9:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-05-09 21:02 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-05-09 21:10 ` Dave Jones
2013-05-14 1:21 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-06-06 15:31 ` Dave Jones
2013-06-06 15:43 ` Frederic Weisbecker [this message]
2013-06-06 23:10 ` Dave Jones
2013-06-12 15:34 ` Dave Jones
2013-06-20 19:10 ` Dave Jones
2013-06-23 10:58 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-07-01 12:10 ` Frederic Weisbecker
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