Re: balance storm

Thomas Gleixner
2014-05-28T09:08:34Z

On Wed, 28 May 2014, Libo Chen wrote:

> On 2014/5/28 9:53, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > On Wed, 2014-05-28 at 09:04 +0800, Libo Chen wrote:
> >
> >> oh yes, no tsc only hpet in my box.
> >
> > Making poor E5-2658 box a crippled wreck.
>
> yes,it is. But cpu usage will be down from 15% to 5% when binding
> cpu, so maybe read_hpet is not the root cause.

Definitely hpet _IS_ the root cause on a machine as large as this,
simply because everything gets serialized on the hpet access.

Binding stuff to cpus just makes the timing behaviour different, so
the hpet serialization is not that prominent, but still bad enough.

Talk to your HW/BIOS vendor. The kernel cannot do anything about
defunct hardware.

Thanks,

tglx