From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.0 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB806C433DF for ; Mon, 3 Aug 2020 15:47:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8725F20781 for ; Mon, 3 Aug 2020 15:47:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727899AbgHCPrL (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Aug 2020 11:47:11 -0400 Received: from foss.arm.com ([217.140.110.172]:59264 "EHLO foss.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726805AbgHCPrK (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Aug 2020 11:47:10 -0400 Received: from usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (unknown [10.121.207.14]) by usa-sjc-mx-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CA3230E; Mon, 3 Aug 2020 08:47:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from e113632-lin (e113632-lin.cambridge.arm.com [10.1.194.46]) by usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 948F03F718; Mon, 3 Aug 2020 08:47:08 -0700 (PDT) References: <20200729033934.22349-1-alison.wang@nxp.com> <877dumbtoi.fsf@kurt> <20200729094943.lsmhsqlnl7rlnl6f@skbuf> <87mu3ho48v.fsf@kurt> <20200730082228.r24zgdeiofvwxijm@skbuf> <873654m9zi.fsf@kurt> <87lfiwm2bj.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de> <20200803114112.mrcuupz4ir5uqlp6@skbuf> <87d047n4oh.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de> User-agent: mu4e 0.9.17; emacs 26.3 From: Valentin Schneider To: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vladimir Oltean , Kurt Kanzenbach , Alison Wang , catalin.marinas@arm.com, will@kernel.org, paulmck@kernel.org, mw@semihalf.com, leoyang.li@nxp.com, vladimir.oltean@nxp.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Anna-Maria Gleixner , Peter Zijlstra Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] arm64: defconfig: Disable fine-grained task level IRQ time accounting In-reply-to: <87d047n4oh.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de> Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2020 16:47:03 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 03/08/20 16:13, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > Vladimir Oltean writes: >>> 1) When irq accounting is disabled, RT throttling kicks in as >>> expected. >>> >>> 2) With irq accounting the RT throttler does not kick in and the RCU >>> stall/lockups happen. >> What is this telling us? > > It seems that the fine grained irq time accounting affects the runtime > accounting in some way which I haven't figured out yet. > With IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING, rq_clock_task() will always be incremented by a lesser-or-equal value than when not having the option; you start with the same delta_exec but slice some for the IRQ accounting, and leave the rest for the rq_clock_task() (+paravirt). IIUC this means that if you spend e.g. 10% of the time in IRQ and 90% of the time running the stress-ng RT tasks, despite having RT tasks hogging the entirety of the "available time" it is still only 90% runtime, which is below the 95% default and the throttling doesn't happen. I don't know if considering IRQ time in some way or another in sched_rt_runtime_exceeded() really is a way out here. > Thanks, > > tglx