On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 08:25:29PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 03:30:34AM +0200, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 1:09 AM, Paul E. McKenney
> > <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 11:15:22PM +0100, Sedat Dilek wrote:
[ . . . ]
> > >> But then came RCU :-(.
> > >
> > > Well, if it turns out to be a problem in RCU I will certainly apologize.
> > >
> >
> > No, that's not so dramatic.
> > Dealing with this RCU issue has nice side-effects: I remembered (and
> > finally did) to use a reduced kernel-config set.
> > The base for it I created with 'make localmodconfig' and did some
> > manual fine-tuning afterwards (throw out media, rc, dvd, unneeded FSs,
> > etc.).
> > Also, I can use fresh gcc-4.6 (4.6.0-1) from the official Debian repos.
> >
> > So, I started building with
> > "revert-rcu-patches/0001-Revert-rcu-introduce-kfree_rcu.patch".
> > I will let you know.
>
> And please also check for tasks consuming all available CPU.
And I still cannot reproduce with the full RCU stack (but based off of
2.6.38 rather than -next). Nevertheless, if you would like to try a
speculative patch, here you go.
Thanx, Paul
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rcu: further lower priority in rcu_yield()
Although rcu_yield() dropped from real-time to normal priority, there
is always the possibility that the competing tasks have been niced.
So nice to 19 in rcu_yield() to help ensure that other tasks have a
better chance of running.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c
index 759f54b..5477764 100644
--- a/kernel/rcutree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcutree.c
@@ -1492,6 +1492,7 @@ static void rcu_yield(void (*f)(unsigned long), unsigned long arg)
mod_timer(&yield_timer, jiffies + 2);
sp.sched_priority = 0;
sched_setscheduler_nocheck(current, SCHED_NORMAL, &sp);
+ set_user_nice(current, 19);
schedule();
sp.sched_priority = RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO;
sched_setscheduler_nocheck(current, SCHED_FIFO, &sp);
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