4.9.10-rt6-virgin on 72 core +SMT box. Below is 1 line per minute, box idling along daintily nibbling, I fire up a parallel kbuild loop at 40465, and box gobbles greedily. I have entries bumped to 128k, and chain bits to 18 so box will get booted and run for a while before lockdep says "I quit". With stock settings, this box will barely get booted. Seems the bigger the box, the sooner you're gonna run out. A NOPREEMPT kernel seems to nibble entries too, but nowhere remotely near as greedily as RT. <...>-100309 [064] d....13 2885.873312: add_lock_to_list.isra.24.constprop.42+0x20/0x100: nr_list_entries: 40129 <...>-104320 [116] dN..211 2959.633630: add_lock_to_list.isra.24.constprop.42+0x20/0x100: nr_list_entries: 40155 btrfs-transacti-1955 [043] d...111 3021.073949: add_lock_to_list.isra.24.constprop.42+0x20/0x100: nr_list_entries: 40183 <...>-118865 [120] d....13 3086.146794: add_lock_to_list.isra.24.constprop.42+0x20/0x100: nr_list_entries: 40209 systemd-logind-4763 [068] d....11 3146.953001: add_lock_to_list.isra.24.constprop.42+0x20/0x100: nr_list_entries: 40239 <...>-123725 [032] dN..2.. 3215.735774: add_lock_to_list.isra.24.constprop.42+0x20/0x100: nr_list_entries: 40285 <...>-33968 [031] d...1.. 3347.919001: add_lock_to_list.isra.24.constprop.42+0x20/0x100: nr_list_entries: 40409 <...>-130886 [143] d....12 3412.586643: add_lock_to_list.isra.24.constprop.42+0x20/0x100: nr_list_entries: 40465 <...>-138291 [037] d....11 3477.816405: add_lock_to_list.isra.24.constprop.42+0x20/0x100: nr_list_entries: 42825 <...>-67678 [137] d...112 3551.648282: add_lock_to_list.isra.24.constprop.42+0x20/0x100: nr_list_entries: 47899 ksoftirqd/45-421 [045] d....13 3617.926394: add_lock_to_list.isra.24.constprop.42+0x20/0x100: nr_list_entries: 48751 ihex2fw-24635 [035] d....11 3686.899690: add_lock_to_list.isra.24.constprop.42+0x20/0x100: nr_list_entries: 49345 <...>-76041 [047] d...111 3758.230009: add_lock_to_list.isra.24.constprop.42+0x20/0x100: nr_list_entries: 49757 stty-10772 [118] d...1.. 3825.626815: add_lock_to_list.isra.24.constprop.42+0x20/0x100: nr_list_entries: 50115 kworker/u289:4-13376 [075] d....12 3896.432428: add_lock_to_list.isra.24.constprop.42+0x20/0x100: nr_list_entries: 51189 <...>-92785 [047] d....12 3905.137578: add_lock_to_list.isra.24.constprop.42+0x20/0x100: nr_list_entries: 51287 With stacktrace on, buffer contains 1010 __lru_cache_add+0x4f... (gdb) list *__lru_cache_add+0x4f 0xffffffff811dca9f is in __lru_cache_add (./include/linux/locallock.h:59). 54 55 static inline void __local_lock(struct local_irq_lock *lv) 56 { 57 if (lv->owner != current) { 58 spin_lock_local(&lv->lock); 59 LL_WARN(lv->owner); 60 LL_WARN(lv->nestcnt); 61 lv->owner = current; 62 } 63 lv->nestcnt++; ...which seems to be this. 0xffffffff811dca80 is in __lru_cache_add (mm/swap.c:397). 392 } 393 EXPORT_SYMBOL(mark_page_accessed); 394 395 static void __lru_cache_add(struct page *page) 396 { 397 struct pagevec *pvec = &get_locked_var(swapvec_lock, lru_add_pvec); 398 399 get_page(page); 400 if (!pagevec_add(pvec, page) || PageCompound(page)) 401 __pagevec_lru_add(pvec); swapvec_lock? Oodles of 'em? Nope. -Mike -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html