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Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2016 17:42:25 -0700 (PDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: alexander.duyck@...il.com Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: IOV iterator bug in net tree From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com> Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 21:32:39 -0700 > On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 11:21 AM, Alexander Duyck > <alexander.duyck@...il.com> wrote: >> I started out this morning by trying to run DevStack on the latest >> "net' kernel and it looks like I am hanging on some sort of locking >> problem with RabbitMQ. Specifically I am seeing one CPU jump to 100% >> with perf showing that I am spinning on a lock. >> >> I'm working to bisect it now, but just thought I would put it out >> there if anybody had already root caused this issue. Below is a few >> traces to the spin lock call on the spinning CPU: > > I misread the perf trace. I wasn't spinning on a lock I was spinning > on the IOV iterator. It just happened to push the lock to the top of > the perf trace. I bisected it down to the recent change in > iterate_and_advance which was already fixed in Linus's tree in commit > 19f18459330f "do 'fold checks into iterate_and_advance()" right'. Since I resynced both of my trees with Linus's, this should be resolved now, right?
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