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Message-ID: <20151003085232.GA27214@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2015 10:52:32 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@...il.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: 4.2.2: NR_CPUS effectively being 1 bug
* Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@...il.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2015-10-03 at 10:18 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, 2015-10-03 at 09:38 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > > * Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > On Fri, Oct 02, 2015 at 02:00:33PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > > > > On Fri, 2 Oct 2015 23:46:59 +0300 Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > FYI, I've upgraded from 4.1.7 to 4.2.1 (and retested with 4.2.2) and
> > > > > > > everything is scheduled on 1 CPU out of 4 (i5 760).
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > $ sudo cat /proc/1/status | grep cpu -i
> > > > > > > Cpus_allowed: 1
> > > > > > > Cpus_allowed_list: 0
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Every process inherits this tiny cpumask.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Sell the other CPUs on ebay?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I haven't seen such a report before - maybe it rings a bell with Peter
> > > > > > & Ingo?
> > > > >
> > > > > I think this is related to some NO_HZ_FULL quackery. People seem to have
> > > > > enabled stuff they've really no sane reason for.
> > > >
> > > > So the question is, is CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_ALL=y enabled? If yes then please disable
> > > > it.
> > > >
> > > > Frederic, is there a fix for that? The Kconfig help text for CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_ALL
> > > > says::
> > > >
> > > > CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_ALL:
> > > >
> > > > If the user doesn't pass the nohz_full boot option to
> > > > define the range of full dynticks CPUs, consider that all
> > > > CPUs in the system are full dynticks by default.
> > > > Note the boot CPU will still be kept outside the range to
> > > > handle the timekeeping duty.
> > > >
> > > > I can see people enabling that. Why are all CPUs lost if it's done?
> > >
> > > Simple. Rik made it such that cpu_isolated_map is immune to cpusets,
> > > and Chris made tick_nohz_full_mask automatically set cpu_isolated_map,
> > > so now if nohz_full is ever turned on, that CPU is gone from the generic
> > > pool forever, with obvious consequences for CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_ALL.
> > >
> > > Lovely eh?
> >
> > Which commit is that? Needs to be reverted...
>
> 8cb9764f nohz: Set isolcpus when nohz_full is set
>
> That's the one that makes them all automatically go away.
Ok, looks like a patch with good intentions but bad effects. Mind sending a revert
patch, changelogged, signed off?
Thanks,
Ingo
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