Re: CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL restricts cpu usage to the equivalent of one in 4.2

[Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop@ntlworld.com>]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 09:11:46PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> 2015-07-15 18:27 GMT+02:00 Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop@ntlworld.com>:
> >
> > The config differences follow.  Perhaps it is actually one of the
> > subsequent choices that is the problem.  And I guess it could still
> > be a gcc-5.1 issue.
> >
> > --- config-4.2-initial  2015-07-15 16:25:12.548005751 +0100
> > +++ config-4.2-speed-ok 2015-07-15 17:00:50.919998703 +0100
> > @@ -104,11 +104,8 @@
> >  CONFIG_TICK_ONESHOT=y
> >  CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON=y
> >  # CONFIG_HZ_PERIODIC is not set
> > -# CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE is not set
> > -CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y
> > -CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_ALL=y
> 
> You had CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_ALL enabled? Because that would indeed
> produce that effect since it isolates all CPUs but 0 off sched
> domains.
> 
> Which means that basically only CPU 0 runs user tasks unless you
> forces these otherwise.

Thanks.  I'll put it down to a bad .config choice, although it was
fine on early 4.1.  While I was starting to bisect, I noticed that
on the A10 everything was happening on CPU 0 - not sure if that was
happening on the original box, but for the moment it sounds likely.

ĸen
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