Re: 2.6.32.y stable kernel regression with taskset

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Sep 16 2010 - 10:41:49 EST


On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 05:45:12AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 11:47 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> > found problem with cpuscaling test.
> >
> > Under 2.6.32.21 Userspace gov
> > min freq load test time is nearly the same as max freq load test time around ~16 seconds
> >
> > under 2.6.18-194
> > min freq load test time is ~40 seconds
> > max freq load test time is ~ 17 seconds
> >
> > the test is
> > 1. set governor for one cpu to userspace
> > 2. set freq to min for that cpu
> > 3. using taskset to put load test only on that cpu, and get the time for load test.
> >
> > so that mean taskset did not put load test on cpu that we want. and other cpu still have ondemand governor and load test get done much faster
> >
> > git bisect report:
> >
> > c6fc81afa2d7ef2f775e48672693d8a0a8a7325d is the first bad commit
> > commit c6fc81afa2d7ef2f775e48672693d8a0a8a7325d
> > Author: John Wright <john.wright@xxxxxx>
> > Date: Tue Apr 13 16:55:37 2010 -0600
> >
> > sched: Fix a race between ttwu() and migrate_task()
>
> Known issue. There's a sched series for 32-stable in the pipeline.

Yes, sorry, I'm working my way through to them, hope to have them
finished and applied soon.

thanks,

greg k-h
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