Hello, On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 08:35:39PM +0100, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > when going from 3.17 to 3.18-rc2 cpu hotplug become horrible slow on some KVM guests on s390 > > I was able to bisect this to > > commit 9eca80461a45177e456219a9cd944c27675d6512 > ("Revert "blk-mq, percpu_ref: implement a kludge for SCSI blk-mq stall during probe") That removes the earlier kludge to avoid the RCU delay so RCU latencies are expected to show up right after; however, the following patches implement proper fix for the problem and the latencies shouldn't be visible afterwards. So, 17497acbdce9 ("blk-mq, percpu_ref: start q->mq_usage_counter in atomic mode") should remove the latencies again. It doesn't? Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-s390" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html