From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Azat Khuzhin <a3at.mail@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel ML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: load average always more then 1 on idle system with dyntick (just after boot)
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 11:54:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150414095424.GJ5029@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150331195248.GA3582@azat>
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 10:52:48PM +0300, Azat Khuzhin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On one of machines [SUPERMICRO], after installing fresh kernel
> (v4.0-rc5-25-g90a5a89), I noticed that loadavg always greater then 1.
>
> I do a lot of digging and finally have more information on this issue:
> CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE=y # loadavg always > 1
> CONFIG_HZ_PERIODIC=y # loadavg < 1
>
> After this I tried to disable "nohz" at boot, to determine whether it is
> statically added code under #ifdef during compilation or not, so I added
> "nohz=off" to cmdline, and it helps!
>
> Also if you enable preemption loadavg is also < 1:
> CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY=y
So you need CONFIG_PREEMPT=n and CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE=y for this to happen?
That's somewhat odd (and uncommon I think, most everybody has at least
VOLUNTARY enabled these days).
I'll try to look over the code to see if I can find a preempt relation,
weird that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-14 9:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-31 19:52 load average always more then 1 on idle system with dyntick (just after boot) Azat Khuzhin
2015-04-14 9:44 ` Azat Khuzhin
2015-04-14 9:54 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2015-04-14 10:19 ` Azat Khuzhin
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