Re: [PATCH 0/3] sched: newidle and RT wake-buddy fixes

From: Gregory Haskins
Date: Tue Jul 08 2008 - 08:48:03 EST


>>> On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 11:12 AM, in message <20080703151209.GA17059@xxxxxxx>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> * Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>> * Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> > I may have found the issue: It looks like the hunk that initially
>> > disables interrupts in load_balance_newidle() was inadvertently
>> > applied to load_balance() instead during the merge to linux-tip. If
>> > you fold the following patch into my original patch, it should set
>> > things right again.
>>
>> ah, sorry - indeed! I've reactivated your patch and i'm testing it
>> now.
>
> -tip testing found that it still hangs at:

Hmm..my fix + your config booted for me at the time I submitted it. I will try to repro
this issue with the new info.

Regards,
-Greg

>
> Intel machine check architecture supported.
> Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#1.
> x86 PAT enabled: cpu 1, old 0x7040600070406, new 0x7010600070106
> CPU1: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ stepping 02
> Brought up 2 CPUs
> Total of 2 processors activated (8044.97 BogoMIPS).
> [...]
>
> with this config:
>
> http://redhat.com/~mingo/misc/config-Thu_Jul__3_16_49_53_CEST_2008.bad
>
> on 3 separate test-systems.
>
> I've again reverted both your fixup and the original commit. I've pushed
> out the failing tree to the tmp.sched/devel.fe6149f5e82 -tip branch, you
> should be able to reproduce it.
>
> Ingo
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