Re: sched: RT throttling activated, 3.12.3

[Howard Chu]

Howard Chu wrote:
> Li Zefan wrote:
> > On 2013/12/11 10:59, Howard Chu wrote:
> > > I just upgraded a system from a 3.5 kernel to 3.12.3 and attempted to run some new benchmarks on it. I see my test program ramps up in CPU usage for a few seconds and then it gradually tails off. There's nothing obvious in the user code to trigger this behavior, so I check dmesg, and see this:
> > >
> > > [   55.037057] JFS: nTxBlock = 8192, nTxLock = 65536
> > > [163591.807470] perf samples too long (2758 > 2500), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 50000
> > > [164061.362762] perf samples too long (5204 > 5000), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 25000
> > > [167969.339513] [sched_delayed] sched: RT throttling activated
> > > [182741.484637] perf samples too long (294588 > 10000), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 12500
> > > [182741.484726] INFO: NMI handler (perf_event_nmi_handler) took too long to run: 36.665 msecs
> > > [182822.633084] perf samples too long (292359 > 20000), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 6250
> > > [182905.606119] perf samples too long (290291 > 40000), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 3250
> > > [199384.293514] perf samples too long (288142 > 76923), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 1750
> > > [208507.301027] perf samples too long (285964 > 142857), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 1000
> > > [208528.976208] perf samples too long (283799 > 250000), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 500
> > >
> > > Why is the kernel throttling my server?
> >
> > Because that is the default setting of the kernel.
>
> Apparently a "new" default that didn't exist in 3.5? The code in question is
> not a realtime process. This behavior also wasn't seen in 3.10 or any older
> kernels.

I just downgraded to 3.10.23 to doublecheck - everything is running normally 
there, although a few percent slower than I expected. (Last time I tried 3.10 
it was 3.10.11.)

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