Re: Problem with commit 31e77c93e432 "sched/fair: Update blocked load when newly idle"

[Heiner Kallweit]

Am 11.04.2018 um 19:00 schrieb Vincent Guittot:
> Hi Heiner,
> 
> On 9 April 2018 at 19:33, Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Am 06.04.2018 um 18:03 schrieb Vincent Guittot:
>>> Hi Heiner,
>>>
>>> On 30 March 2018 at 10:37, Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> Am 30.03.2018 um 08:50 schrieb Vincent Guittot:
>>>>> On 29 March 2018 at 19:40, Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>> Am 29.03.2018 um 09:41 schrieb Vincent Guittot:
>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm finally not so sure that i have the right set up to reproduce the
>>>>>>> problem as I haven't been able to reproduce it since.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Heiner,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> How fast the problem happens on your board ?
>>>>>>> Are you doing anything specific on the console that trigger the problem ?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Vincent,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> the lag when working on the console is constantly there, the "rcu_preempt
>>>>>> detected stalls" happens after several hours (so far always within 24h)
>>>>>> w/o any triggering event I would be aware of. It occured also when the
>>>>>> system was idle at that point in time.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ok, so I don't have the problem on my hikey as the console never lag
>>>>> on my setup.
>>>>>
>>>>> Can you send me the config of  your kernel ? I'd like to check if you
>>>>> have enable something that could trigger such problem
>>>>>
>>>> Sure, he we go. I also add a system log.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the config. I have used it for my setup but I can't
>>> reproduce your regression. My platforms stay stable so I probably
>>> missing something. Are you facing similar problem with other platforms
>>> or only this celeron based platform ?
>>>
>>> I have reviewed the code but don't see any obvious place in the patch
>>> that can generate the problem. Nevertheless, would you mind to try the
>>> patch below ? It's a blind test to try to narrow the problem.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>> Hi Vincent,
>>
>> I tried again with today's linux-next and it's much better. The lag isn't
>> completely gone but it's much less annoying. Every ~30 secs the console
>> hangs for about half a second, that's much less frequent than before.
> 
> That's interesting because nothing related to commit
> 31e77c93e432dec79c7d90b888bbfc3652592741 has been merged recently
> AFAICT
> 
>>
>> I saw some patches from Rafael have been merged in the last days.
>> Maybe they improved the situation.
> 
> Yes, Peter mentions in another thread that lastest Rafael's patches
> avoid stopping tick when entering short idle thus reducing the time to
> enter idle. commit 31e77 is adding some background activity when
> entering idle so it can be that we take too much time
> 
> You also mentioned that the CPU was relatively slow on the platform.
> Can you try to use cpufreq performance governor instead of ondemand ?
> 

The system uses intel_pstate scaling driver, so only powersave and
performance are available. Min/max frequency are 600MHz / 1100 MHz.
I didn't really notice a difference when switching between both
modes.

Regards, Heiner

> I'm also going to prepare a patch for adding some trace in the code to
> highlight the problem
> 
> Thanks,
> Vincent
> 
>>
>> Regards, Heiner
>>
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