linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 14/16] irq: Add support for core-wide protection of IRQ and softirq

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Date:   Sat, 11 Jul 2020 09:33:44 +0800
From:   Aubrey Li <aubrey.intel@...il.com>
To:     Vineeth Remanan Pillai <vpillai@...italocean.com>
Cc:     "Li, Aubrey" <aubrey.li@...ux.intel.com>,
        Nishanth Aravamudan <naravamudan@...italocean.com>,
        Julien Desfossez <jdesfossez@...italocean.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Paul Turner <pjt@...gle.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
        Linux List Kernel Mailing <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Subhra Mazumdar <subhra.mazumdar@...cle.com>,
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        Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@...ux.intel.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Joel Fernandes <joelaf@...gle.com>,
        Vineeth Pillai <vineethrp@...il.com>,
        Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@...el.com>,
        Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>,
        Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...el.com>,
        "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 14/16] irq: Add support for core-wide protection of
 IRQ and softirq

On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 9:36 PM Vineeth Remanan Pillai
<vpillai@...italocean.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Aubrey,
>
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 8:19 AM Li, Aubrey <aubrey.li@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Joel/Vineeth,
> > [...]
> > The problem is gone when we reverted this patch. We are running multiple
> > uperf threads(equal to cpu number) in a cgroup with coresched enabled.
> > This is 100% reproducible on our side.
> >
> > Just wonder if anything already known before we dig into it.
> >
> Thanks for reporting this. We haven't seen any lockups like this
> in our testing yet.

This is replicable on a bare metal machine. We tried to reproduce
on a 8-cpus KVM vm but failed.

> Could you please add more information on how to reproduce this?
> Was it a simple uperf run without any options or was it running any
> specific kind of network test?

I put our scripts at here:
https://github.com/aubreyli/uperf

>
> We shall also try to reproduce this and investigate.

I'll try to see if I can narrow down the test case and grab some logs
next week.

Thanks,
-Aubrey