lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2017]   [Apr]   [20]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectHeads-up: two regressions in v4.11-rc series
Hi Linus,

Just wanted to give a heads-up on two regressions in 4.11-rc series.

(1) page allocator optimization revert

Mel Gorman and I have been playing with optimizing the page allocator,
but Tariq spotted that we caused a regression for (NIC) drivers that
refill DMA RX rings in softirq context.

The end result was a revert, and this is waiting in AKPMs quilt queue:
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/revert-mm-page_alloc-only-use-per-cpu-allocator-for-irq-safe-requests.patch


(2) Busy softirq can cause userspace not to be scheduled

I bisected the problem to a499a5a14dbd ("sched/cputime: Increment
kcpustat directly on irqtime account"). See email thread with
Subject: Bisected softirq accounting issue in v4.11-rc1~170^2~28
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170328101403.34a82fbf@redhat.com

I don't know the scheduler code well enough to fix this, and will have
to rely others to figure out this scheduler regression.

To make it clear: I'm only seeing this scheduler regression when a
remote host is sending many many network packets, towards the kernel
which keeps NAPI/softirq busy all the time. A possible hint: tool
"top" only shows this in "si" column, while on v4.10 "top" also blames
"ksoftirqd/N", plus "ps" reported cputime (0:00) seems wrong for ksoftirqd.


--
Best regards,
Jesper Dangaard Brouer
MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2017-04-20 11:01    [W:0.098 / U:2.616 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site