Re: [bug report] sched: stop_machine() usage causes load balancerto misbehave

[Chris Friesen]

Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, Chris Friesen wrote:
>
>
> > I mentioned before that ftrace (specifically the ftraced daemon) seems to be
> > interfering with the load balancer.  After some experimenting, it appears that
> > any regular calls to stop_machine() will end up confusing the load balancer.
> >
> > As an experiment, I disabled ftraced (which would normally result in correct
> > load balancing) but added a single kernel thread which simply runs the
> > following loop, where "chrisd2" is a dummy function.
>
>
>
> Chris,
>
> Thanks for looking into this. I don't have an answer for your question, 
> but I'll work harder to get the MCOUNT_REC working in PPC.
>
> Does this happen with x86 too?

Unfortunately I don't have an x86 box handy for testing...I could 
probably get some time on a lab machine next week.

Chris
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