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SubjectRe: RCU NOHZ, tsc, and clock_gettime
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 02:27:01PM -0400, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
>
> > The effect of removing the two functions you noted (on 3.6 and earlier)
> > is to prevent RCU from checking for dyntick-idle CPUs, likely incurring
> > a cache miss for each CPU with interrupts disabled. If you have a lot
> > of CPUs (or even if NR_CPUS is large and you have a smaller number of
> > CPUs), this can result in user-space-visible delays.
> >
>
> Paul,
>
> I built a kernel with NR_CPUS=48 and booted on a 48 cpu (logical) system. I do
> not see a difference in the test -- the variance is AFAICT just as large as if I
> had run with NR_CPUS=4096.

OK -- have you applied John Stultz's suggestions?

Thanx, Paul



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