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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: fupan li <lifupan@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RCU stall and the system boot hang
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 11:55:37 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151201195537.GA13568@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151130171918.GR26643@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 09:19:18AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 02:54:13PM +0800, fupan li wrote:

[ . . . ]

> > No,  just a normal boot, and these stalls were happened before
> > systemd services running.
>
> Interesting.  My testing show v4.1 being OK, with the first issues showing
> up somewhere between v4.1 and v4.2.  Or at least v4.1 is reliable enough
> that is passes 42 hours of focused rcutorture testing, where v4.2 tends
> to fail in under two hours.  And it seems to happen only on multisocket
> systems -- I seem to be able to hammer as hard as I want on my four-core
> (eight hardware thread) laptop without an issue.

And I take it back.  After beating on it for the better part of a week,
I did get one failure on my single-socket laptop.

So maybe I need to make my rcutorture scripts force tests to cross socket
boundaries where possible...

							Thanx, Paul


      reply	other threads:[~2015-12-01 19:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2015-11-27 16:28 ` RCU stall and the system boot hang Paul E. McKenney
     [not found]   ` <CADUONQN3yFyFQ8pfkS9u7UAYNjQym8f1JAGapeR9YV4E=7_xXg@mail.gmail.com>
2015-11-28 14:53     ` Paul E. McKenney
     [not found]       ` <CADUONQOYtHvwzoWNW33=WXy5r-UBTqs_vKdeRUgg=YEqq1meWg@mail.gmail.com>
2015-11-29  6:05         ` Paul E. McKenney
     [not found]           ` <CADUONQOc1x_gboKOmigwUX9GrZhukH4KkN1SXRGyjwvXfoGqTg@mail.gmail.com>
2015-11-30 17:19             ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-12-01 19:55               ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]

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