Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Oct 2008 20:02:57 -0400 (EDT) | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: [bug report] sched: stop_machine() usage causes load balancer to misbehave |
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On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, Chris Friesen wrote:
> I mentioned before that ftrace (specifically the ftraced daemon) seems to be > interfering with the load balancer. After some experimenting, it appears that > any regular calls to stop_machine() will end up confusing the load balancer. > > As an experiment, I disabled ftraced (which would normally result in correct > load balancing) but added a single kernel thread which simply runs the > following loop, where "chrisd2" is a dummy function.
Chris,
Thanks for looking into this. I don't have an answer for your question, but I'll work harder to get the MCOUNT_REC working in PPC.
Does this happen with x86 too?
-- Steve
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