From: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
To: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 00/45] CPU hotplug: stop_machine()-free CPU hotplug
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 11:58:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKfTPtA1aTseD6Gntkf_zbCEbfZzt3P2-P1un6iF5_1TdVLjRQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <512207A6.4000402@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On 18 February 2013 11:51, Srivatsa S. Bhat
<srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> On 02/18/2013 04:04 PM, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
>> On 02/18/2013 03:54 PM, Vincent Guittot wrote:
>>> On 15 February 2013 20:40, Srivatsa S. Bhat
>>> <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi Vincent,
>>>>
>>>> On 02/15/2013 06:58 PM, Vincent Guittot wrote:
>>>>> Hi Srivatsa,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have run some tests with you branch (thanks Paul for the git tree)
>>>>> and you will find results below.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thank you very much for testing this patchset!
>>>>
>>>>> The tests condition are:
>>>>> - 5 CPUs system in 2 clusters
>>>>> - The test plugs/unplugs CPU2 and it increases the system load each 20
>>>>> plug/unplug sequence with either more cyclictests threads
>>>>> - The test is done with all CPUs online and with only CPU0 and CPU2
>>>>>
>>>>> The main conclusion is that there is no differences with and without
>>>>> your patches with my stress tests. I'm not sure that it was the
>>>>> expected results but the cpu_down is already quite low : 4-5ms in
>>>>> average
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Atleast my patchset doesn't perform _worse_ than mainline, with respect
>>>> to cpu_down duration :-)
>>>
>>> yes exactly and it has pass more than 400 consecutive plug/unplug on
>>> an ARM platform
>>>
>>
>> Great! However, did you turn on CPU_IDLE during your tests?
>>
>> In my tests, I had turned off cpu idle in the .config, like I had mentioned in
>> the cover letter. I'm struggling to get it working with CPU_IDLE/INTEL_IDLE
>> turned on, because it gets into a lockup almost immediately. It appears that
>> the lock-holder of clockevents_lock never releases it, for some reason..
>> See below for the full log. Lockdep has not been useful in debugging this,
>> unfortunately :-(
>>
>
> Ah, nevermind, the following diff fixes it :-) I had applied this fix on v5
> and tested but it still had races where I used to hit the lockups. Now after
> I fixed all the memory barrier issues that Paul and Oleg pointed out in v5,
> I applied this fix again and tested it just now - it works beautifully! :-)
My tests have been done without cpuidle because i have some issues
with function tracer and cpuidle
But the cpu hotplug and cpuidle work well when I run the tests without
enabling the function tracer
Vincent
>
> I'll include this fix and post a v6 soon.
>
> Regards,
> Srivatsa S. Bhat
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------->
>
>
> diff --git a/kernel/time/clockevents.c b/kernel/time/clockevents.c
> index 30b6de0..ca340fd 100644
> --- a/kernel/time/clockevents.c
> +++ b/kernel/time/clockevents.c
> @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
> #include <linux/module.h>
> #include <linux/notifier.h>
> #include <linux/smp.h>
> +#include <linux/cpu.h>
>
> #include "tick-internal.h"
>
> @@ -431,6 +432,7 @@ void clockevents_notify(unsigned long reason, void *arg)
> unsigned long flags;
> int cpu;
>
> + get_online_cpus_atomic();
> raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&clockevents_lock, flags);
> clockevents_do_notify(reason, arg);
>
> @@ -459,6 +461,7 @@ void clockevents_notify(unsigned long reason, void *arg)
> break;
> }
> raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&clockevents_lock, flags);
> + put_online_cpus_atomic();
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(clockevents_notify);
> #endif
>
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Thread overview: 122+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-22 7:33 [PATCH v5 00/45] CPU hotplug: stop_machine()-free CPU hotplug Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-01-22 7:33 ` [PATCH v5 01/45] percpu_rwlock: Introduce the global reader-writer lock backend Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-01-22 18:45 ` Stephen Hemminger
2013-01-22 19:41 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-01-22 19:32 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-01-22 19:58 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-01-22 20:54 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-01-24 4:14 ` Michel Lespinasse
2013-01-24 15:58 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-01-22 7:33 ` [PATCH v5 02/45] percpu_rwlock: Introduce per-CPU variables for the reader and the writer Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-01-22 7:33 ` [PATCH v5 03/45] percpu_rwlock: Provide a way to define and init percpu-rwlocks at compile time Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-01-22 7:33 ` [PATCH v5 04/45] percpu_rwlock: Implement the core design of Per-CPU Reader-Writer Locks Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-01-23 18:55 ` Tejun Heo
2013-01-23 19:33 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-01-23 19:57 ` Tejun Heo
2013-01-24 4:30 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-01-29 11:12 ` Namhyung Kim
2013-02-08 22:47 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-02-10 18:38 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-02-08 23:10 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-02-10 18:06 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-02-10 19:24 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-02-10 19:50 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-02-10 20:09 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-02-10 22:13 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-02-10 19:54 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-02-12 16:15 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-02-10 19:10 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-02-10 19:47 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-02-10 19:57 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-02-10 20:13 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-02-10 20:20 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-01-22 7:34 ` [PATCH v5 05/45] percpu_rwlock: Make percpu-rwlocks IRQ-safe, optimally Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-02-08 23:44 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-02-10 19:27 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-02-10 18:42 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-02-10 19:30 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-01-22 7:34 ` [PATCH v5 06/45] percpu_rwlock: Allow writers to be readers, and add lockdep annotations Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-02-08 23:47 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-02-10 19:32 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-01-22 7:34 ` [PATCH v5 07/45] CPU hotplug: Provide APIs to prevent CPU offline from atomic context Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-01-29 10:21 ` Namhyung Kim
2013-02-10 19:34 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-02-08 23:50 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-01-22 7:35 ` [PATCH v5 08/45] CPU hotplug: Convert preprocessor macros to static inline functions Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-02-08 23:51 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-01-22 7:35 ` [PATCH v5 09/45] smp, cpu hotplug: Fix smp_call_function_*() to prevent CPU offline properly Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-02-09 0:07 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-02-10 19:41 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-02-10 19:56 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-02-10 19:59 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-01-22 7:35 ` [PATCH v5 10/45] smp, cpu hotplug: Fix on_each_cpu_*() " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-01-22 7:35 ` [PATCH v5 11/45] sched/timer: Use get/put_online_cpus_atomic() to prevent CPU offline Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-01-22 7:35 ` [PATCH v5 12/45] sched/migration: Use raw_spin_lock/unlock since interrupts are already disabled Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-01-22 7:36 ` [PATCH v5 13/45] sched/rt: Use get/put_online_cpus_atomic() to prevent CPU offline Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-01-22 7:36 ` [PATCH v5 14/45] rcu, CPU hotplug: Fix comment referring to stop_machine() Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-02-09 0:14 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-02-10 19:43 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-01-22 7:36 ` [PATCH v5 15/45] tick: Use get/put_online_cpus_atomic() to prevent CPU offline Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-01-22 7:37 ` [PATCH v5 16/45] time/clocksource: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-01-22 7:37 ` [PATCH v5 17/45] softirq: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-01-22 7:38 ` [PATCH v5 18/45] irq: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-01-22 7:38 ` [PATCH v5 19/45] net: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-01-22 7:38 ` [PATCH v5 20/45] block: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-01-22 7:38 ` [PATCH v5 21/45] crypto: pcrypt - Protect access to cpu_online_mask with get/put_online_cpus() Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-01-22 7:39 ` [PATCH v5 22/45] infiniband: ehca: Use get/put_online_cpus_atomic() to prevent CPU offline Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-01-22 7:39 ` [PATCH v5 23/45] [SCSI] fcoe: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-01-22 7:39 ` [PATCH v5 24/45] staging: octeon: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-01-22 7:39 ` [PATCH v5 25/45] x86: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-01-22 7:39 ` [PATCH v5 26/45] perf/x86: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-01-22 7:40 ` [PATCH v5 27/45] KVM: Use get/put_online_cpus_atomic() to prevent CPU offline from atomic context Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-01-22 7:40 ` [PATCH v5 28/45] kvm/vmx: Use get/put_online_cpus_atomic() to prevent CPU offline Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-01-22 7:40 ` [PATCH v5 29/45] x86/xen: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-02-19 18:10 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-02-19 18:29 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-01-22 7:41 ` [PATCH v5 30/45] alpha/smp: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-01-22 7:41 ` [PATCH v5 31/45] blackfin/smp: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-01-28 9:09 ` Bob Liu
2013-01-28 19:06 ` Tejun Heo
2013-01-29 1:14 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-01-22 7:41 ` [PATCH v5 32/45] cris/smp: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-01-22 7:42 ` [PATCH v5 33/45] hexagon/smp: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-01-22 7:42 ` [PATCH v5 34/45] ia64: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-01-22 7:42 ` [PATCH v5 35/45] m32r: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-01-22 7:42 ` [PATCH v5 36/45] MIPS: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-01-22 7:43 ` [PATCH v5 37/45] mn10300: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-01-22 7:43 ` [PATCH v5 38/45] parisc: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-01-22 7:43 ` [PATCH v5 39/45] powerpc: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-01-22 7:44 ` [PATCH v5 40/45] sh: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-01-22 7:44 ` [PATCH v5 41/45] sparc: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-01-22 7:44 ` [PATCH v5 42/45] tile: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-01-22 7:44 ` [PATCH v5 43/45] cpu: No more __stop_machine() in _cpu_down() Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-01-22 7:45 ` [PATCH v5 44/45] CPU hotplug, stop_machine: Decouple CPU hotplug from stop_machine() in Kconfig Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-02-09 0:15 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-02-10 19:45 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-01-22 7:45 ` [PATCH v5 45/45] Documentation/cpu-hotplug: Remove references to stop_machine() Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-02-09 0:16 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-02-04 13:47 ` [PATCH v5 00/45] CPU hotplug: stop_machine()-free CPU hotplug Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-02-07 4:14 ` Rusty Russell
2013-02-07 6:11 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-02-08 15:41 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-02-08 16:44 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-02-08 18:09 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-02-11 11:58 ` Vincent Guittot
2013-02-11 12:23 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-02-11 19:08 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-02-12 3:58 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-02-15 13:28 ` Vincent Guittot
2013-02-15 19:40 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-02-18 10:24 ` Vincent Guittot
2013-02-18 10:34 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-02-18 10:51 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-02-18 10:58 ` Vincent Guittot [this message]
2013-02-18 15:30 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-02-18 16:50 ` Vincent Guittot
2013-02-18 19:53 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-02-18 19:53 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-02-19 10:33 ` Vincent Guittot
2013-02-18 10:54 ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-02-18 10:57 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-02-11 12:41 ` [PATCH v5 01/45] percpu_rwlock: Introduce the global reader-writer lock backend David Howells
2013-02-11 12:56 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
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