Re: weird loadavg on idle machine post 5.7

From: Paul Gortmaker
Date: Fri Jul 03 2020 - 09:26:08 EST


[Re: weird loadavg on idle machine post 5.7] On 02/07/2020 (Thu 17:15) Paul Gortmaker wrote:

> [weird loadavg on idle machine post 5.7] On 02/07/2020 (Thu 13:15) Dave Jones wrote:

[...]

> > both implicated this commit:
> >
> > commit c6e7bd7afaeb3af55ffac122828035f1c01d1d7b (refs/bisect/bad)
> > Author: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Sun May 24 21:29:55 2020 +0100
> >
> > sched/core: Optimize ttwu() spinning on p->on_cpu
>
> I was down to 10 commits roughly above and below this guy before hearing
> you were working the same problem.
>
> I just got this guy to reveal a false load after a 2h test as well.
> I want to let the one underneath soak overnight just to also confirm it
> is "good" - so that is pending.

As per above, I ran a 12h test overnight on 505b8af5891 and it seems
fine. Every other "bad" bisect point failed in 7h or less. So my
testing seems to give the same result as Dave.

Paul.
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root@t5610:/home/paul/git/linux-head#
[1]- Done nohup
tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm.sh --cpus 24 --duration 720 --configs TREE03 --trust-make > /tmp/kvm.sh.out 2>&1
root@t5610:/home/paul/git/linux-head# uptime
09:10:56 up 13:12, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.14
root@t5610:/home/paul/git/linux-head# cat /proc/version
Linux version 5.7.0-rc6-00029-gd505b8af5891 (paul@t5610) (gcc version 9.3.0 (Ubuntu 9.3.0-10ubuntu2), GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.34) #2 SMP Thu Jul 2 18:55:40 EDT 2020