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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "Liang, Kan" <kan.liang@intel.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
	"Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] sched/wait: Introduce lock breaker in wake_up_page_bit
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 09:24:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+55aFx3WY00yvEDBg7TagX4h_-QO71=HAq5GAT8awtewRXONQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bd2d09ea-47d1-c0a7-8d4d-604bb4bc28bc@linux.intel.com>

On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 9:13 AM, Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> It is affecting not a production use, but the customer's acceptance
> test for their systems.  So I suspect it is a stress test.

Can you gently poke them and ask if they might make theie stress test
code available?

Tell them that we have a fix, but right now it's delayed into 4.14
because we have no visibility into what it is that it actually fixes,
and whether it's all that critical or just some microbenchmark.

Thanks,

           Linus

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "Liang, Kan" <kan.liang@intel.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
	"Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] sched/wait: Introduce lock breaker in wake_up_page_bit
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 09:24:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+55aFx3WY00yvEDBg7TagX4h_-QO71=HAq5GAT8awtewRXONQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bd2d09ea-47d1-c0a7-8d4d-604bb4bc28bc@linux.intel.com>

On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 9:13 AM, Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> It is affecting not a production use, but the customer's acceptance
> test for their systems.  So I suspect it is a stress test.

Can you gently poke them and ask if they might make theie stress test
code available?

Tell them that we have a fix, but right now it's delayed into 4.14
because we have no visibility into what it is that it actually fixes,
and whether it's all that critical or just some microbenchmark.

Thanks,

           Linus

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-29 16:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-25 16:13 [PATCH 1/2 v2] sched/wait: Break up long wake list walk Tim Chen
2017-08-25 16:13 ` Tim Chen
2017-08-25 16:13 ` [PATCH 2/2 v2] sched/wait: Introduce lock breaker in wake_up_page_bit Tim Chen
2017-08-25 16:13   ` Tim Chen
2017-08-25 19:58   ` Linus Torvalds
2017-08-25 19:58     ` Linus Torvalds
2017-08-25 22:19     ` Tim Chen
2017-08-25 22:19       ` Tim Chen
2017-08-25 22:51       ` Linus Torvalds
2017-08-25 23:03         ` Linus Torvalds
2017-08-26  0:31           ` Linus Torvalds
2017-08-26  0:31             ` Linus Torvalds
2017-08-26  2:54             ` Linus Torvalds
2017-08-26  2:54               ` Linus Torvalds
2017-08-26 18:15               ` Linus Torvalds
2017-08-27 21:40                 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-08-27 21:40                   ` Linus Torvalds
2017-08-27 21:42                   ` Linus Torvalds
2017-08-27 21:42                     ` Linus Torvalds
2017-08-27 23:12                   ` Linus Torvalds
2017-08-27 23:12                     ` Linus Torvalds
2017-08-28  1:16                     ` Nicholas Piggin
2017-08-28  1:16                       ` Nicholas Piggin
2017-08-28  1:29                       ` Nicholas Piggin
2017-08-28  1:29                         ` Nicholas Piggin
2017-08-28  5:17                         ` Linus Torvalds
2017-08-28  5:17                           ` Linus Torvalds
2017-08-28  7:18                           ` Nicholas Piggin
2017-08-28  7:18                             ` Nicholas Piggin
2017-08-28 14:51                 ` Liang, Kan
2017-08-28 16:48                   ` Linus Torvalds
2017-08-28 20:01                     ` Tim Chen
2017-08-28 20:01                       ` Tim Chen
2017-08-29 12:57                     ` Liang, Kan
2017-08-29 16:01                       ` Linus Torvalds
2017-08-29 16:01                         ` Linus Torvalds
2017-08-29 16:13                         ` Tim Chen
2017-08-29 16:13                           ` Tim Chen
2017-08-29 16:24                           ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2017-08-29 16:24                             ` Linus Torvalds
2017-08-29 16:57                             ` Tim Chen
2017-08-29 16:57                               ` Tim Chen
2017-09-14  2:12                             ` Tim Chen
2017-09-14  2:12                               ` Tim Chen
2017-09-14  2:27                               ` Linus Torvalds
2017-09-14  2:27                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-09-14 16:50                                 ` Tim Chen
2017-09-14 16:50                                   ` Tim Chen
2017-09-14 17:00                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2017-09-14 17:00                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2017-09-14 16:39                               ` Christopher Lameter
2017-08-29 16:17                     ` Tim Chen
2017-08-29 16:17                       ` Tim Chen
2017-08-29 16:22                       ` Linus Torvalds
2017-08-29 16:22                         ` Linus Torvalds
2017-08-25 17:46 ` [PATCH 1/2 v2] sched/wait: Break up long wake list walk Christopher Lameter
2017-08-25 17:46   ` Christopher Lameter

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