On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 3:31 PM, john stultz<johnstul@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Thomas Gleixner<tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> We are pleased to announce the next update to our new preempt-rt
>> series.
>>
>> - update to 2.6.31-rc6
>>
>
> I'm seeing some bad scheduler behavior with this patch. I've seen
> occasional bad behavior with 2.6.29-rt as well, but with .31-rt its
> much worse.
>
> I'm running a SCHED_OTHER cpubound benchmark (censored to
> xxxxxxxxxxxxx in the logs) that runs for a number of minutes. With
> 2.6.31-rc6 I'm seeing really poor numbers and if I cat
> /proc/sched_debug I see all of the cpu bound tasks are running on the
> same cpu, while the other procs are basically idle. See the log below:
Thomas didn't like that I censored the benchmark, so until I know
better about what I can say there, I've reproduced a similar effect
with a make -j8 bzImage. See below:
thanks
-john
Sched Debug Version: v0.09, 2.6.31-rc6-rt2 #2
now at 3297823.422240 msecs
.jiffies : 4297965119
.sysctl_sched_latency : 60.000000
.sysctl_sched_min_granularity : 12.000000
.sysctl_sched_wakeup_granularity : 15.000000
.sysctl_sched_child_runs_first : 0.000001
.sysctl_sched_features : 113917
cpu#0, 2193.531 MHz
.nr_running : 4
.load : 3087
.nr_switches : 10622255
.nr_load_updates : 3297812
.nr_uninterruptible : 51
.next_balance : 4297.965146
.curr->pid : 26387
.clock : 3297823.016251
.cpu_load[0] : 180594
.cpu_load[1] : 231489
.cpu_load[2] : 238710
.cpu_load[3] : 236501
.cpu_load[4] : 233349
.rt.rt_nr_running : 0
.rt.rt_nr_uninterruptible : -13
.rto_schedule : 3359261
.rto_schedule_tail : 0
.rto_wakeup : 0
.rto_pulled : 0
.rto_pushed : 0
.yld_count : 1
.sched_switch : 0
.sched_count : 17260145
.sched_goidle : 1789234
.ttwu_count : 7093762
.ttwu_local : 7041555
.bkl_count : 544
cfs_rq[0]:
.exec_clock : 1526490.657852
.MIN_vruntime : 1697673.859107
.min_vruntime : 1697721.435148
.max_vruntime : 1697722.132915
.spread : 48.273808
.spread0 : 0.000000
.nr_running : 4
.load : 3087
.nr_spread_over : 0
rt_rq[0]:
.rt_nr_running : 0
.rt_throttled : 0
.rt_time : 2.794815
.rt_runtime : 950.000000
runnable tasks:
task PID tree-key switches prio
exec-runtime sum-exec sum-sleep
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
kipmi0 655 1697673.859107 3125949 139
1697673.859107 22219.014181 3087520.179107
bash 3472 1697721.436567 311 120
1697721.436567 36.956916 2565232.593307
cc1 26385 1697722.132915 124 120
1697722.132915 113.879128 0.000000
R cat 26387 1697662.324743 4 120
1697662.324743 1.030048 16.225876
cpu#1, 2193.531 MHz
.nr_running : 7
.load : 7168
.nr_switches : 7939426
.nr_load_updates : 3297202
.nr_uninterruptible : 165
.next_balance : 4297.965173
.curr->pid : 26336
.clock : 3297823.399906
.cpu_load[0] : 184690
.cpu_load[1] : 229070
.cpu_load[2] : 218000
.cpu_load[3] : 204927
.cpu_load[4] : 198665
.rt.rt_nr_running : 0
.rt.rt_nr_uninterruptible : -13
.rto_schedule : 3372469
.rto_schedule_tail : 0
.rto_wakeup : 0
.rto_pulled : 0
.rto_pushed : 0
.yld_count : 0
.sched_switch : 0
.sched_count : 7948572
.sched_goidle : 2241052
.ttwu_count : 4381283
.ttwu_local : 4325894
.bkl_count : 657
cfs_rq[1]:
.exec_clock : 1071210.085128
.MIN_vruntime : 384918.473172
.min_vruntime : 384918.235870
.max_vruntime : 384918.873276
.spread : 0.400104
.spread0 : -1312803.199278
.nr_running : 7
.load : 7168
.nr_spread_over : 6
rt_rq[1]:
.rt_nr_running : 0
.rt_throttled : 0
.rt_time : 3.774163
.rt_runtime : 950.000000
runnable tasks:
task PID tree-key switches prio
exec-runtime sum-exec sum-sleep
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
cc1 26050 384918.473172 2253 120
384918.473172 1909.594817 113.729925
cc1 26315 384918.593007 500 120
384918.593007 454.022678 28.557925
R cc1 26336 384918.237098 405 120
384918.237098 356.613052 25.673456
cc1 26351 384918.816523 304 120
384918.816523 274.220163 24.214767
cc1 26357 384918.476355 290 120
384918.476355 254.796027 28.269487
cc1 26364 384918.730242 339 120
384918.730242 314.419053 17.154139
cc1 26378 384918.873276 110 120
384918.873276 100.034046 5.567260
cpu#2, 2193.531 MHz
.nr_running : 0
.load : 0
.nr_switches : 7657407
.nr_load_updates : 3296882
.nr_uninterruptible : -118
.next_balance : 4297.965123
.curr->pid : 0
.clock : 3297823.260220
.cpu_load[0] : 177522
.cpu_load[1] : 177522
.cpu_load[2] : 177522
.cpu_load[3] : 177522
.cpu_load[4] : 177522
.rt.rt_nr_running : 0
.rt.rt_nr_uninterruptible : -6
.rto_schedule : 3332888
.rto_schedule_tail : 0
.rto_wakeup : 0
.rto_pulled : 0
.rto_pushed : 0
.yld_count : 0
.sched_switch : 0
.sched_count : 7657972
.sched_goidle : 3078184
.ttwu_count : 4260805
.ttwu_local : 4234948
.bkl_count : 0
cfs_rq[2]:
.exec_clock : 233036.033916
.MIN_vruntime : 0.000001
.min_vruntime : 107747.557398
.max_vruntime : 0.000001
.spread : 0.000000
.spread0 : -1589973.877750
.nr_running : 0
.load : 0
.nr_spread_over : 0
rt_rq[2]:
.rt_nr_running : 0
.rt_throttled : 0
.rt_time : 0.856935
.rt_runtime : 950.000000
runnable tasks:
task PID tree-key switches prio
exec-runtime sum-exec sum-sleep
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
cpu#3, 2193.531 MHz
.nr_running : 0
.load : 0
.nr_switches : 7631340
.nr_load_updates : 3296553
.nr_uninterruptible : -98
.next_balance : 4297.965121
.curr->pid : 0
.clock : 3297823.383808
.cpu_load[0] : 177522
.cpu_load[1] : 177522
.cpu_load[2] : 177522
.cpu_load[3] : 177522
.cpu_load[4] : 177522
.rt.rt_nr_running : 0
.rt.rt_nr_uninterruptible : -15
.rto_schedule : 3331154
.rto_schedule_tail : 0
.rto_wakeup : 0
.rto_pulled : 0
.rto_pushed : 0
.yld_count : 0
.sched_switch : 0
.sched_count : 7632024
.sched_goidle : 3084753
.ttwu_count : 4240808
.ttwu_local : 4233012
.bkl_count : 0
cfs_rq[3]:
.exec_clock : 226437.391084
.MIN_vruntime : 0.000001
.min_vruntime : 121397.454749
.max_vruntime : 0.000001
.spread : 0.000000
.spread0 : -1576323.980399
.nr_running : 0
.load : 0
.nr_spread_over : 0
rt_rq[3]:
.rt_nr_running : 0
.rt_throttled : 0
.rt_time : 0.818937
.rt_runtime : 950.000000
runnable tasks:
task PID tree-key switches prio
exec-runtime sum-exec sum-sleep
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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