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Re: INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks with `kswapd` and `mem_cgroup_shrink_node`

From Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks with `kswapd` and `mem_cgroup_shrink_node`
Date 2016-12-01 17:40 +0100
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On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 04:40:24AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 06:30:35AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> > Sure, we all dislike IPIs, but I'm thinking this half-way point is
> > sensible, no point in issuing user visible annoyance if indeed we can
> > prod things back to life, no?
> > 
> > Only if we utterly fail to make it respond should we bug the user with
> > our failure..
> 
> Sold!  ;-)
> 
> I will put together a patch later today.
> 
> My intent is to hold off on the "upgrade cond_resched()" patch, one
> step at a time.  Longer term, I do very much like the idea of having
> cond_resched() do both scheduling and RCU quiescent states, assuming
> that this avoids performance pitfalls.

Well, with the above change cond_resched() is already sufficient, no?

In fact, by doing the IPI thing we get the entire cond_resched*()
family, and we could add the should_resched() guard to
cond_resched_rcu().

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Re: INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks with `kswapd` and  `mem_cgroup_shrink_node` Donald Buczek <buczek@molgen.mpg.de> - 2016-11-27 10:20 +0100
  Re: INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks with `kswapd` and  `mem_cgroup_shrink_node` Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-11-28 12:10 +0100
    Re: INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks with `kswapd` and  `mem_cgroup_shrink_node` Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de> - 2016-11-28 13:30 +0100
      Re: INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks with `kswapd` and  `mem_cgroup_shrink_node` Donald Buczek <buczek@molgen.mpg.de> - 2016-11-30 11:30 +0100
        Re: INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks with `kswapd` and  `mem_cgroup_shrink_node` Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-11-30 12:20 +0100
          Re: INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks with `kswapd` and  `mem_cgroup_shrink_node` Donald Buczek <buczek@molgen.mpg.de> - 2016-11-30 12:50 +0100
            Re: INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks with `kswapd` and  `mem_cgroup_shrink_node` Donald Buczek <buczek@molgen.mpg.de> - 2016-12-02 10:20 +0100
              Re: INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks with `kswapd` and  `mem_cgroup_shrink_node` Donald Buczek <buczek@molgen.mpg.de> - 2016-12-06 09:40 +0100
          Re: INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks with `kswapd` and  `mem_cgroup_shrink_node` "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-11-30 13:00 +0100
            Re: INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks with `kswapd` and  `mem_cgroup_shrink_node` Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de> - 2016-11-30 13:40 +0100
              Re: INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks with `kswapd` and  `mem_cgroup_shrink_node` "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-11-30 15:40 +0100
          Re: INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks with `kswapd` and  `mem_cgroup_shrink_node` "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-11-30 13:00 +0100
            Re: INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks with `kswapd` and  `mem_cgroup_shrink_node` Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-11-30 14:20 +0100
              Re: INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks with `kswapd` and  `mem_cgroup_shrink_node` "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-11-30 15:40 +0100
                Re: INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks with `kswapd` and  `mem_cgroup_shrink_node` Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-11-30 17:40 +0100
                Re: INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks with `kswapd` and  `mem_cgroup_shrink_node` Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-11-30 18:10 +0100
                Re: INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks with `kswapd` and  `mem_cgroup_shrink_node` "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-11-30 18:30 +0100
                Re: INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks with `kswapd` and  `mem_cgroup_shrink_node` Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-11-30 18:40 +0100
                Re: INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks with `kswapd` and  `mem_cgroup_shrink_node` Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-11-30 19:00 +0100
                Re: INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks with `kswapd` and  `mem_cgroup_shrink_node` "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-11-30 22:40 +0100
                Re: INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks with `kswapd` and  `mem_cgroup_shrink_node` Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-12-01 06:40 +0100
                Re: INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks with `kswapd` and  `mem_cgroup_shrink_node` "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-12-01 13:50 +0100
                Re: INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks with `kswapd` and  `mem_cgroup_shrink_node` Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-12-01 17:40 +0100
                Re: INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks with `kswapd` and  `mem_cgroup_shrink_node` "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-12-01 18:00 +0100
                Re: INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks with `kswapd` and  `mem_cgroup_shrink_node` Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-12-01 19:20 +0100
                Re: INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks with `kswapd` and  `mem_cgroup_shrink_node` "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-12-01 19:50 +0100
                Re: INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks with `kswapd` and  `mem_cgroup_shrink_node` Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-12-01 20:00 +0100
                Re: INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks with `kswapd` and  `mem_cgroup_shrink_node` "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-11-30 18:10 +0100

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