Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Apr 2012 11:27:27 -0400 | From | Josh Boyer <> | Subject | RCU related performance regression in 3.3 |
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Hi Paul,
We've had a few reports of some boot slowdowns with the 3.3 rebase we did in Fedora 16. One of our users volunteered to bisect a vanilla kernel and wound up at "rcu: Permit dyntick-idle with callbacks pending (commit 7cb924990)". You can find more details in the bug [1], but it's been reported on both physical hardware and in virtual machines.
Have you seen anything like this in your testing? Given the user used a vanilla 3.3 kernel, I'm wondering if there is a targetted fix that might be backported. If so, it would be good to get that headed to the 3.3.y stable tree.
josh
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=806548
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