Re: [PATCH v7 4/8] sched: nominate preferred wakeup cpu

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri Dec 19 2008 - 17:39:31 EST


On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:31:30 +0100
Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> * Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > [ 74.013893] <EOI> <0>Code: 8b 47 08 4a 8b 0c 00 48 85 c9 0f 84 c3 00 00 00 49 8b 47 10 4a 8b 04 00 48 8b 80 a8 00 00 00 48 85 c0 74 13 48 0f af 45 c8 31 d2 <48> f7 75 c0 49 89 c6 48 89 c6 eb 16 48 63 55 d0 48 8b 45 c8 45
> > > [ 74.013893] RIP [<ffffffff802375d8>] tg_shares_up+0x113/0x1f1
> > > [ 74.013893] RSP <ffff88025e057d88>
> > > [ 74.020022] ---[ end trace 2fc4046e394f2312 ]---
> > > [ 74.020188] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
> > >
> > > config: http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/config-akpm2.txt
> > >
> > > I'll try hacking some div-by-zero avoidance into update_group_shares_cpu().
> >
> > hm, weird - Yinghai noticed this crash in -tip and we have that patch
> > zapped from all -*-next branches already.
>
> I guess you applied Ken's patch from email and had it in -mm?

Nope.

> We have a
> new version of that patch from Ken now based on Yinghai's bugreport - only
> lightly tested for now.
>
> Ingo
>
> ----------->
> >From d71f5a7c8bf9cd7c74159a53e522e363f2eddaf5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Ken Chen <kenchen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:11:50 -0800
> Subject: [PATCH] sched: fix uneven per-cpu task_group share distribution

linux-next has:

commit 6eed5aaacae0ced9a43a923633befd2c695d6620
Author: Ken Chen <kenchen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Dec 15 23:37:50 2008 -0800

sched: fix uneven per-cpu task_group share distribution

so I guess we have a latency problem.
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