linux-kernel - Re: scheduling anomaly on uml (was: -rt doesn't compile for UML)

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Message-ID: <20071129105744.GI10577@elte.hu>
Date:	Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:57:44 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc:	jdike@...toit.com, user-mode-linux-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: scheduling anomaly on uml (was: -rt doesn't compile for UML)


* Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu> wrote:

> I can't say I'm understading these traces very well, but here's a 
> snippet that looks a bit strange.  I'm running 'while true; do date; 
> done' in parallel with the dd.
> 
> For some time it is doing 100% CPU as expected, then it goes into a 
> second or so of mosty idle (afaics), and then returns to the normal 
> pattern again.

try:

  echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/stackframe_tracing

to get symbolic stack backdumps for the wakeup points, and add 
trace_special_sym() calls to generate extra stackdump entries at 
arbitrary places. schedule() does not have it right now - it might make 
sense to add it.

also, enabling mcount:

 echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/mcount_enabled

will give you a _lot_ more verbose trace. Likewise:

 echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/syscall_tracing

(but for that you'd have to add the sys_call()/sys_ret() instrumentation 
that x86 has in entry_32.S)

but even this highlevel trace shows something weird:

> events/0-4     0.... 16044512us+: schedule <<idle>-0> (20 -5)
>   <idle>-0     0.... 16044564us!: schedule <events/0-4> (-5 20)
>   <idle>-0     0.Nh. 16076072us+: __trace_start_sched_wakeup <date-7133> (120 -1)
>   <idle>-0     0.Nh. 16076075us+: __trace_start_sched_wakeup <dd-6444> (120 -1)
>   <idle>-0     0.Nh. 16076078us+: __trace_start_sched_wakeup <kswapd0-33> (115 -1)
>       dd-6444  0.... 16076104us+: schedule <<idle>-0> (20 0)

how come UML idled for 30 msecs here, while the workload was supposed to 
be CPU-bound? It's not IO bound anywhere, right? No SMP artifacts 
either, right?

	Ingo
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