linux-kernel - Question on migration CPU0->CPUN while being 100% busy

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Date:	Sun, 25 May 2014 17:17:31 +0200
From:	Marc Burkhardt <marc@...nowledge.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Question on migration CPU0->CPUN while being 100% busy

Hi all,

I just noticed that when compiling 'mpv' on an i7 machine a process is migrated
to another cpu occasionally.

While the workload was busy on 100% CPU0 like this

root@...c:~ # pstree -p 32000
ebuild.sh(32000)───ebuild.sh(32017)───waf(32030)─┬─i686-pc-linux-g(869)───i686-pc-linux-g(876)─┬─as(878)
                                                 │                                             └─cc1(877)
                                                 ├─{waf}(32031)
                                                 ├─{waf}(32032)
                                                 ├─{waf}(32033)
                                                 └─{waf}(32034)

it switched over to 100% CPU2 with this exact same workload:

root@...c:~ # pstree -p 32000
ebuild.sh(32000)───ebuild.sh(32017)───waf(32030)─┬─i686-pc-linux-g(869)───i686-pc-linux-g(876)─┬─as(878)
                                                 │                                             └─cc1(877)
                                                 ├─{waf}(32031)
                                                 ├─{waf}(32032)
                                                 ├─{waf}(32033)
                                                 └─{waf}(32034)

gcc runs -flto=4 BTW and PID 877 is the process migrated between CPUs.

To me it makes no sense to migrate an already running process to another CPU -
besides a thermal throttling on happening on CPU0/1 -> CPU2/3 - but I mean to
have seen them migrate between the 0<->1 and 2<->3 as well.

Could anyone of you make it clear why a process is migrated to another CPU
while being run at 100% CPU load? I'm using 3.10.40 vanilla with the attached
.config. I run my setup 32bit on this 64bit machine.

I will provide any further information as requested.

Please CC:.

Thanks,
Marc

-- 
Marc Burkhardt

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