Re: NMI watchdog triggering during load_balance

[David Ahern]

On 3/5/15 9:52 PM, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > CPU970 attaching sched-domain:
> >    domain 0: span 968-975 level SIBLING
> >     groups: 8 single CPU groups
> >     domain 1: span 968-975 level MC
> >      groups: 1 group with 8 cpus
> >      domain 2: span 768-1023 level CPU
> >       groups: 4 groups with 256 cpus per group
>
> Wow, that topology is horrid.  I'm not surprised that your box is
> writhing in agony.  Can you twiddle that?

twiddle that how?

The system has 4 physical cpus (sockets). Each cpu has 32 cores with 8 
threads per core and each cpu has 4 memory controllers.

If I disable SCHED_MC and CGROUPS_SCHED (group scheduling) there is a 
noticeable improvement -- watchdog does not trigger and I do not get the 
rq locks held for 2-3 seconds. But there is still fairly high cpu usage 
for an idle system. Perhaps I should leave SCHED_MC on and disable 
SCHED_SMT; I'll try that today.

Thanks,
David
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