linux-kernel - Re: balance storm

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Date:	Thu, 29 May 2014 15:58:35 +0800
From:	Libo Chen <libo.chen@...wei.com>
To:	Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@...il.com>
CC:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, <mingo@...e.hu>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"Li Zefan" <lizefan@...wei.com>, <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Huang Qiang <h.huangqiang@...wei.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Subject: Re: balance storm

On 2014/5/28 19:55, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-05-28 at 19:43 +0800, Libo Chen wrote: 
>> On 2014/5/28 17:08, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>> On Wed, 28 May 2014, Libo Chen wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2014/5/28 9:53, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, 2014-05-28 at 09:04 +0800, Libo Chen wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> oh yes, no tsc only hpet in my box.
>>>>>
>>>>> Making poor E5-2658 box a crippled wreck.
>>>>
>>>> yes,it is. But cpu usage will be down from 15% to 5% when binding
>>>> cpu, so maybe read_hpet is not the root cause.
>>>
>>> Definitely hpet _IS_ the root cause on a machine as large as this,
>>> simply because everything gets serialized on the hpet access.
>>>
>>> Binding stuff to cpus just makes the timing behaviour different, so
>>> the hpet serialization is not that prominent, but still bad enough.
>>>
>>> Talk to your HW/BIOS vendor. The kernel cannot do anything about
>>> defunct hardware.
>>
>> thank you for your reply.but suse sp2 is very good in this scene.
>> Can it be said there has a bug, then community fix it later,
>> so it's just a coincidence?
> 
> I'm quite sure it's because of the patches I mentioned.

I see


thanks,
Libo

> 
> -Mike
> 
> 
> 


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