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From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: Dave Chiluk <chiluk+linux@indeed.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Please backport de53fd7aedb1 : sched/fair: Fix low cpu usage with high throttling by removing expiration of cpu-local slices
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 09:13:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190927131332.GO8171@sasha-vm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC=E7cXcujmbwMnmXeH2=80Lkki+j_b=WE4KCWaM1mYafDaWSA@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 01:12:40AM -0500, Dave Chiluk wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 1:44 AM Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 12:53:48AM -0500, Dave Chiluk wrote:
>> > Commit de53fd7aedb1 ("sched/fair: Fix low cpu usage with high
>> > throttling by removing expiration of cpu-local slices") fixes a major
>> > performance issue for containerized clouds such as Kubernetes.
>> >
>> > Commit de53fd7aedb1 Fixes commit : 512ac999d275 ("sched/fair: Fix
>> > bandwidth timer clock drift condition").
>> >
>> > This should be applied to all stable kernels that applied commit
>> > 512ac999d275, and should probably be applied to all others as well.
>>
>> As this commit isn't in a released kernel just yet, we should wait to
>> see what happens when it hits people's machines, right?
>
>I think waiting till 5.4 is released would be irresponsible on this
>one.  512ac999 was recently pushed back into many of the distro

The "released kernel" statement means 5.4-rc1 rather than 5.4, which is
just a few days away.

--
Thanks,
Sasha

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-09-27 13:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-25  5:53 Please backport de53fd7aedb1 : sched/fair: Fix low cpu usage with high throttling by removing expiration of cpu-local slices Dave Chiluk
2019-09-25  6:44 ` Greg KH
2019-09-27  6:12   ` Dave Chiluk
2019-09-27  6:24     ` Greg KH
2019-09-27 13:13     ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2019-10-03  5:15       ` Dave Chiluk
2019-10-03  6:51         ` Greg KH
2019-10-18 20:23           ` Dave Chiluk
2019-10-18 20:53             ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-10-22 14:55               ` Dave Chiluk
2019-11-04 11:08                 ` Greg KH
2019-11-08 18:06                   ` [PATCH v4.14.y 1/2] " Dave Chiluk
2019-11-08 20:15                   ` [PATCH v4.14.y 0/2] Please backport de53fd7aedb1 : " Dave Chiluk
2019-11-08 20:15                     ` [PATCH v4.14.y 1/2] " Dave Chiluk
2019-11-08 20:15                     ` [PATCH v4.14.y 2/2] sched/fair: Fix -Wunused-but-set-variable warnings Dave Chiluk
2019-11-11  9:18                     ` [PATCH v4.14.y 0/2] Please backport de53fd7aedb1 : sched/fair: Fix low cpu usage with high throttling by removing expiration of cpu-local slices Greg KH
2019-11-08 20:20                   ` [PATCH v4.19.y " Dave Chiluk
2019-11-08 20:20                     ` [PATCH v4.19.y 1/2] " Dave Chiluk
2019-11-08 20:20                     ` [PATCH v4.19.y 2/2] sched/fair: Fix -Wunused-but-set-variable warnings Dave Chiluk
2019-11-11  9:19                     ` [PATCH v4.19.y 0/2] Please backport de53fd7aedb1 : sched/fair: Fix low cpu usage with high throttling by removing expiration of cpu-local slices Greg KH

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