Re: [PATCH v6 0/4] CPU hotplug, cpusets, suspend/resume: Fixes, cleanupsand optimizations

From: Srivatsa S. Bhat
Date: Wed Jun 20 2012 - 05:42:43 EST


On 05/24/2012 07:46 PM, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:

> Currently the kernel doesn't handle cpusets properly during suspend/resume.
> After a resume, all non-root cpusets end up having only 1 cpu (the boot cpu),
> causing massive performance degradation of workloads. One major user of cpusets
> is libvirt, which means that after a suspend/hibernation cycle, all VMs
> suddenly end up running terribly slow!
>
> Also, the kernel moves the tasks from one cpuset to another during CPU hotplug
> in the suspend/resume path, leading to a task-management nightmare after
> resume.
>
> Patch 1 fixes this by keeping cpusets unmodified in the suspend/resume path.
> But to ensure we don't trip over, it keeps the sched domains updated during
> every CPU hotplug in the s/r path.
> This is a long standing issue and we need to fix up stable kernels too.
>
> The rest of the patches in the series are mostly cleanups/optimizations.
>


Hi Peter,

Would you be taking these patches through -tip for 3.6?

Regards,
Srivatsa S. Bhat

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