linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] scheduler fixes

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Message-ID: <20090118083744.GB21940@elte.hu>
Date:	Sun, 18 Jan 2009 09:37:44 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
Cc:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Kevin Shanahan <kmshanah@...b.org.au>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [git pull] scheduler fixes


* Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com> wrote:

> Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> * Mike Galbraith <efault@....de> wrote:
>>
>>   
>>> On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 04:43 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>>     
>>>> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12465 just popped up - another
>>>> scheduler regression.  It has been bisected.
>>>>       
>>> Seems pretty clear.  I'd suggest reverting it.
>>>     
>>
>> We can revert it (and will revert it if no solution is found), but i'd  
>> also like to understand why it happens, because that kind of regression 
>> from this change is unexpected - we might be hiding some bug that could 
>> pop up under less debuggable circumstances, so we need to understand it 
>> while we have a chance.
>>
>> Below is the commit in question. Avi, any ideas what makes KVM special  
>> here? Perhaps its use of "preempt notifiers" is causing a problem 
>> somehow?
>>   
>
> preempt notifiers use should cause additional context switch costs of a 
> few thousand cycles and possible an IPI (if a vcpu was migrated).  So 
> I'd suspect scheduling latency here.
>
> Is it possible to trace this (the time between a wake up and actual 
> scheduling of a task)?

Can you reproduce those latencies? We didnt get similar reports from 
elsewhere so there seems to be a KVM angle.

	Ingo
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