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From: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: fast path cycle muncher (vmstat: make vmstat_updater deferrable again and shut down on idle)
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2016 03:46:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1453603581.3609.15.camel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1601231829500.13930@east.gentwo.org>

On Sat, 2016-01-23 at 18:33 -0600, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Jan 2016, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> 
> > While you're fixing that commit up, can you perhaps find a better home
> > for quiet_vmstat()?  It not only munches cycles when switching cross
> > -core mightily, for -rt it injects a sleeping lock into the idle task.
> 
> Not sure what you are talking about. No sleeping locks are used in
> quiet_vmstat() nor does it switch across cores. It would be broken if it
> would do so.

By switching cross-core, I'm referring to scheduling of communicating
tasks.

The perf top snippet...

    12.89%  [kernel]       [k] refresh_cpu_vm_stats.isra.12
     4.75%  [kernel]       [k] __schedule                  
     4.70%  [kernel]       [k] mutex_unlock                
     3.14%  [kernel]       [k] __switch_to

... was pipe-test, an unrealistic microbench, but the same will happen
at lower frequency in the real world.

Here's the sleeping lock for -rt:

[    2.279582] CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 4.5.0-rt3 #7
[    2.280444] Hardware name: MEDION MS-7848/MS-7848, BIOS M7848W08.20C 09/23/2013
[    2.281316]  ffff88040b00d640 ffff88040b01fe10 ffffffff812d20e2 0000000000000000
[    2.282202]  ffff88040b01fe30 ffffffff81081095 ffff88041ec4cee0 ffff88041ec501e0
[    2.283073]  ffff88040b01fe48 ffffffff815ff910 ffff88041ec4cee0 ffff88040b01fe88
[    2.283941] Call Trace:
[    2.284797]  [<ffffffff812d20e2>] dump_stack+0x49/0x67
[    2.285658]  [<ffffffff81081095>] ___might_sleep+0xf5/0x180
[    2.286521]  [<ffffffff815ff910>] rt_spin_lock+0x20/0x50
[    2.287382]  [<ffffffff81075919>] try_to_grab_pending+0x69/0x240
[    2.288239]  [<ffffffff81075b16>] cancel_delayed_work+0x26/0xe0
[    2.289094]  [<ffffffff8115ec05>] quiet_vmstat+0x75/0xa0
[    2.289949]  [<ffffffff8109ab38>] cpu_idle_loop+0x38/0x3e0
[    2.290800]  [<ffffffff8109aef3>] cpu_startup_entry+0x13/0x20
[    2.291647]  [<ffffffff81036164>] start_secondary+0x114/0x140

  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-24  2:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-19  0:33 mm, vmstat: kernel BUG at mm/vmstat.c:1408! Sasha Levin
2015-12-21 13:08 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-12-21 20:28   ` Sasha Levin
2015-12-21 21:07     ` Sasha Levin
2015-12-21 21:14       ` Christoph Lameter
2015-12-22 17:21         ` Christoph Lameter
2015-12-24 20:14         ` Sasha Levin
2015-12-29 17:01           ` Christoph Lameter
2015-12-29 17:18             ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-04 18:05           ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-04 18:46             ` Sasha Levin
2016-01-12 11:31   ` Shiraz Hashim
2016-01-12 12:23     ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-12 12:27       ` Shiraz Hashim
2016-01-13 11:36       ` Shiraz Hashim
2016-01-13 12:32         ` Shiraz Hashim
2016-01-14 21:06         ` Sasha Levin
2016-01-20 14:37 ` Michal Hocko
2016-01-20 14:56   ` Sasha Levin
2016-01-20 15:10     ` Michal Hocko
2016-01-20 15:20       ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-20 15:49         ` Sasha Levin
2016-01-20 15:55           ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-20 21:28             ` Michal Hocko
2016-01-20 21:57               ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-21  8:24                 ` Michal Hocko
2016-01-21 15:45                   ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-21 16:51                     ` Michal Hocko
2016-01-21 17:38                       ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-22 11:00                         ` Shiraz Hashim
2016-01-22 14:04                         ` Michal Hocko
2016-01-22 16:07                           ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-22 16:12                             ` Michal Hocko
2016-01-22 16:46                               ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-22 17:12                                 ` Michal Hocko
2016-01-23 16:21                                 ` fast path cycle muncher (vmstat: make vmstat_updater deferrable again and shut down on idle) Mike Galbraith
2016-01-24  0:33                                   ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-24  2:46                                     ` Mike Galbraith [this message]
2016-01-24  3:46                                       ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-24  5:36                                         ` Mike Galbraith
2016-01-25 17:42                                   ` Michal Hocko
2016-01-25 18:02                                     ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-25 20:13                                       ` Michal Hocko
2016-01-26 16:25                                         ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-26 18:31                                           ` Mike Galbraith
2016-01-26 18:34                                             ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-26 18:45                                               ` Mike Galbraith
2016-01-26 19:20                                                 ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-27  3:12                                                   ` Mike Galbraith
2016-01-27  4:15                                                     ` Mike Galbraith
2016-01-27 16:28                                                     ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-28 15:36                                                       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2016-01-28 16:42                                                         ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-26  2:14                                       ` Mike Galbraith
2016-01-26  2:25                                         ` Mike Galbraith
2016-01-26 16:26                                           ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-26 17:39                                             ` Mike Galbraith
2016-01-26 18:19                                               ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-26 16:26                                         ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-26 17:08                                           ` Mike Galbraith
2016-01-26 18:22                                             ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-26 19:09                                               ` Mike Galbraith
2016-01-26 19:22                                                 ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-27 16:48                                   ` [PATCH] mm, vmstat: make quiet_vmstat lighter (was: Re: fast path cycle muncher (vmstat: make vmstat_updater deferrable) " Michal Hocko
2016-01-27 17:03                                     ` Mike Galbraith
2016-01-27 18:26                                     ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-28 15:21                                       ` Michal Hocko
2016-01-28 16:40                                         ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-28 16:53                                           ` Michal Hocko
2016-01-28 17:05                                             ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-28 15:31                                       ` Michal Hocko
2016-01-28 15:37                                         ` [PATCH] vmstat: make vmstat_update deferrable (was: Re: [PATCH] mm, vmstat: make quiet_vmstat lighter) " Michal Hocko
2016-01-28 16:48                                           ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-28 16:42                                         ` [PATCH] mm, vmstat: make quiet_vmstat lighter (was: Re: fast " Christoph Lameter
2016-01-24 16:57                                 ` mm, vmstat: kernel BUG at mm/vmstat.c:1408! Linus Torvalds
2016-01-20 15:14   ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-20 15:20     ` Michal Hocko

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