Re: Kernel migration eat CPUs

Ingo Molnar
2013-09-05T11:12:57Z

* Alexey Vlasov <renton@renton.name> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 04:28:37PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> > and a function (or function-graph)
> > trace for when this happens?
>
> Unfortunately I could not make trace.
> First when migration threads start to eat CPUs and when I turn on trace:
> # echo function > current_tracer
> # echo 1 > tracing_on
> then server is down at once. LA comes up to several thousands, it stops
> to receive commands. Sometimes I even have to reboot it.

Could you try the latest -tip tree at:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git

In particular this fix:

5a8e01f8fa51 sched/cputime: Do not scale when utime == 0

Could perhaps fix the phantom CPU overhead you are seeing?

Thanks,

Ingo