Re: [ANNOUNCE] 4.4-rc6-rt1

From	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Subject	Re: [ANNOUNCE] 4.4-rc6-rt1
Date	2016-01-01 10:20 +0100
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On Fri, 1 Jan 2016, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-12-31 at 10:24 -0600, Clark Williams wrote:
> > I pulled this update and tried it on my laptop (i7 quad-core with HT)
> > and an Atom testbox. I'm seeing a change in the cpu utilization of
> > ksoftirqd between 4.1.15-rt17 and 4.4-rc2-rt1, where the per-cpu
> > ksoftirqd threads are running at between 25-40% utilization:
> > 
> > top - 10:15:57 up 13:46,  2 users,  load average: 9.44, 9.30, 8.93
> > Tasks: 188 total,   2 running, 186 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> > %Cpu(s):  4.7 us, 53.6 sy,  0.0 ni, 37.4 id,  0.1 wa,  0.0 hi,  4.2 si,  0.0 st
> > KiB Mem :  4046064 total,   480548 free,   179528 used,  3385988 buff/cache
> > KiB Swap:  5177340 total,  5169908 free,     7432 used.  3785624 avail Mem 
> > 
> >   PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND                      
> >     3 root      -2   0       0      0      0 S  37.3  0.0 307:52.44 ksoftirqd/0                  
> >    32 root      -2   0       0      0      0 S  37.3  0.0 308:08.72 ksoftirqd/2                  
> >    42 root      -2   0       0      0      0 R  37.3  0.0 308:32.84 ksoftirqd/3                  
> >    22 root      -2   0       0      0      0 S  26.9  0.0 222:29.82 ksoftirqd/1                  
> >     1 root      20   0   46628   6980   4976 S   1.3  0.2   0:13.98 systemd                      
> > 22358 williams  20   0  159980   4552   3780 R   1.0  0.1   0:00.39 top       
> 
> Heh, I didn't notice immediately because I throttle nohz, am seeing
> only tiny utilization (but nohz idle isn't working).  With throttle
> patch removed, box is screaming, expires=4294990471 pokes eyeball.
> 
>          swapper     0 [003]   392.708321: timer:hrtimer_cancel: hrtimer=0xffff88041ecce720
>          swapper     0 [003]   392.708321: timer:hrtimer_start: hrtimer=0xffff88041ecce720 function=tick_sched_timer/0x0 expires=4294990471 softexpires=4294990471

There is a major hickup in the hrtimer RT conversion. I'll have a look next
week.

Thanks,

	tglx
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[ANNOUNCE] 4.4-rc6-rt1 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> - 2015-12-24 00:00 +0100
  Re: [ANNOUNCE] 4.4-rc6-rt1 Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> - 2016-01-01 08:20 +0100
    Re: [ANNOUNCE] 4.4-rc6-rt1 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2016-01-01 10:20 +0100
      Re: [ANNOUNCE] 4.4-rc6-rt1 Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> - 2016-01-01 10:50 +0100
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