linux/arch
Paul E. McKenney bf51935f3e x86, rcu: fix strange load average and ksoftirqd behavior
Damien Wyart reported high ksoftirqd CPU usage (20%) on an
otherwise idle system.

The function-graph trace Damien provided:

>   799.521187 |   1)    <idle>-0    |               |  rcu_check_callbacks() {
>   799.521371 |   1)    <idle>-0    |               |  rcu_check_callbacks() {
>   799.521555 |   1)    <idle>-0    |               |  rcu_check_callbacks() {
>   799.521738 |   1)    <idle>-0    |               |  rcu_check_callbacks() {
>   799.521934 |   1)    <idle>-0    |               |  rcu_check_callbacks() {
>   799.522068 |   1)  ksoftir-2324  |               |                rcu_check_callbacks() {
>   799.522208 |   1)    <idle>-0    |               |  rcu_check_callbacks() {
>   799.522392 |   1)    <idle>-0    |               |  rcu_check_callbacks() {
>   799.522575 |   1)    <idle>-0    |               |  rcu_check_callbacks() {
>   799.522759 |   1)    <idle>-0    |               |  rcu_check_callbacks() {
>   799.522956 |   1)    <idle>-0    |               |  rcu_check_callbacks() {
>   799.523074 |   1)  ksoftir-2324  |               |                  rcu_check_callbacks() {
>   799.523214 |   1)    <idle>-0    |               |  rcu_check_callbacks() {
>   799.523397 |   1)    <idle>-0    |               |  rcu_check_callbacks() {
>   799.523579 |   1)    <idle>-0    |               |  rcu_check_callbacks() {
>   799.523762 |   1)    <idle>-0    |               |  rcu_check_callbacks() {
>   799.523960 |   1)    <idle>-0    |               |  rcu_check_callbacks() {
>   799.524079 |   1)  ksoftir-2324  |               |                  rcu_check_callbacks() {
>   799.524220 |   1)    <idle>-0    |               |  rcu_check_callbacks() {
>   799.524403 |   1)    <idle>-0    |               |  rcu_check_callbacks() {
>   799.524587 |   1)    <idle>-0    |               |  rcu_check_callbacks() {
>   799.524770 |   1)    <idle>-0    |               |  rcu_check_callbacks() {
> [ . . . ]

Shows rcu_check_callbacks() being invoked way too often. It should be called
once per jiffy, and here it is called no less than 22 times in about
3.5 milliseconds, meaning one call every 160 microseconds or so.

Why do we need to call rcu_pending() and rcu_check_callbacks() from the
idle loop of 32-bit x86, especially given that no other architecture does
this?

The following patch removes the call to rcu_pending() and
rcu_check_callbacks() from the x86 32-bit idle loop in order to
reduce the softirq load on idle systems.

Reported-by: Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-17 22:47:45 +01:00
..
alpha alpha: fix the BUG() macro 2009-01-29 18:04:44 -08:00
arm mmc: Add a MX2/MX3 specific SDHC driver 2009-02-02 20:57:05 +01:00
avr32 eeprom: More consistent symbol names 2009-01-26 21:19:57 +01:00
blackfin eeprom: More consistent symbol names 2009-01-26 21:19:57 +01:00
cris Merge branch 'syscalls' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6 2009-01-14 19:58:40 -08:00
frv NOMMU: Make VMAs per MM as for MMU-mode linux 2009-01-08 12:04:47 +00:00
h8300 Merge branch 'syscalls' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6 2009-01-14 19:58:40 -08:00
ia64 Documentation: move DMA-mapping.txt to Doc/PCI/ 2009-01-29 18:19:29 -08:00
m32r eeprom: More consistent symbol names 2009-01-26 21:19:57 +01:00
m68k m68knommu: remove the no longer used PCI support option 2009-01-27 16:42:02 +10:00
m68knommu m68knommu: fix 5329 ColdFire periphal addressing 2009-01-27 16:42:03 +10:00
mips MIPS: Alchemy: time.c build fix 2009-01-30 21:33:01 +00:00
mn10300 [CVE-2009-0029] Rename old_readdir to sys_old_readdir 2009-01-14 14:15:15 +01:00
parisc Documentation: move DMA-mapping.txt to Doc/PCI/ 2009-01-29 18:19:29 -08:00
powerpc powerpc: Fix oops on some machines due to incorrect pr_debug() 2009-02-02 17:08:25 +11:00
s390 [S390] Add missing compat system call wrappers. 2009-01-23 16:40:29 +01:00
sh Merge branch 'i2c-for-linus' of git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6 2009-01-26 15:11:41 -08:00
sparc Merge branch 'i2c-for-linus' of git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6 2009-01-26 15:11:41 -08:00
um mm: invoke oom-killer from page fault 2009-01-06 15:58:58 -08:00
x86 x86, rcu: fix strange load average and ksoftirqd behavior 2009-02-17 22:47:45 +01:00
xtensa byteorder: make swab.h include asm/swab.h like a regular header 2009-01-14 19:56:50 -08:00
.gitignore
Kconfig [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrapper infrastructure 2009-01-14 14:15:16 +01:00