linux-kernel - Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v18

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Message-ID: <20070701083102.GA4499@elte.hu>
Date:	Sun, 1 Jul 2007 10:31:02 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@...il.com>,
	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v18


* Willy Tarreau <w@....eu> wrote:

> Ingo,
> 
> I've accidentally discovered a problem with -v18.
> 
> Some time ago, I wrote a small program to prevent my laptop from 
> entering low-power mode, and noticed that after upgrading my laptop's 
> kernel from 2.4.20.9+cfs-v6 to 2.4.20.14+cfs-v18, it completely 
> freezes if I run this program.
> 
> The program is trivial, it just sets its prio to nice +20 and forks a 
> busy loop. I've added the ability to stop the loop after a 
> user-definable number of iterations, and I can confirm that it 
> unfreezes when the loop ends. I'm not even root when I run it.

hm, i tried your test-app and it causes no problems here. (which is not 
a surprise - your app starts a nice +19 busy loop, which is one of the 
common tests i do here too.)

To further debug this, could you try to create a 'high priority shell' 
on a text console (i.e. not under X) that is SCHED_FIFO prio 98? 
Something like:

  chrt -f -p 98 $$

should do the trick. And then run this script:

  http://people.redhat.com/mingo/cfs-scheduler/tools/cfs-debug-info.sh

before the test, during the test and after the test, from the high-prio 
shell session. (the shell runs at SCHED_FIFO, so the expectation would 
be for that it will be able to run during the test too) Then please send 
me the resulting 3 debug files. Thanks,

	Ingo
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