From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: sched: odd values for effective load calculations
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 16:33:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141216153333.GA3337@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <548FBA62.5090603@oracle.com>
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 11:51:46PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> I'm not sure if you've caught up on the RCU stall issue we've been trying
> to track down (https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/14/656), but could this "funny"
> balancing behaviour be "funny" enough to cause a stall?
Typically not, the worst degenerate modes are either running everything
on one cpu or constantly migrating tasks. Both suck performance wise,
but are 'valid' modes of operation.
RCU stalls require not actually getting to userspace or otherwise
delaying grace periods for egregious amounts of time. The only way I can
see that happening is a load-balance pass not finishing at all, and then
you'd consistently get stack traces from inside the balancer -- and I'm
not seeing that in the email referenced.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-16 15:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-02 22:53 sched: odd values for effective load calculations Sasha Levin
2014-12-13 8:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2014-12-15 12:12 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-12-15 13:14 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-12-16 5:29 ` Sasha Levin
2014-12-16 15:37 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-12-18 2:10 ` Yuyang Du
2014-12-16 4:51 ` Sasha Levin
2014-12-16 2:09 ` Yuyang Du
2014-12-19 0:29 ` Yuyang Du
2014-12-19 11:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-01-09 12:33 ` [tip:sched/urgent] sched: Fix odd values in effective_load() calculations tip-bot for Yuyang Du
2014-12-16 15:33 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
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