Re: Unusually high system CPU usage with recent kernels

[Tibor Billes]

> From: Paul E. McKenney Sent: 08/20/13 11:43 PM
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 10:52:26PM +0200, Tibor Billes wrote:
> > > From: Paul E. McKenney Sent: 08/20/13 04:53 PM
> > > On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 08:01:28AM +0200, Tibor Billes wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > I was using the 3.9.7 stable release and tried to upgrade to the 3.10.x series.
> > > > The 3.10.x series was showing unusually high (>75%) system CPU usage in some
> > > > situations, making things really slow. The latest stable I tried is 3.10.7.
> > > > I also tried 3.11-rc5, they both show this behaviour. This behaviour doesn't
> > > > show up when the system is idling, only when doing some CPU intensive work,
> > > > like compiling with multiple threads. Compiling with only one thread seems not
> > > > to trigger this behaviour.
> > > > 
> > > > To be more precise I did a `perf record -a` while compiling a large C++ program
> > > > with scons using 4 threads, the result is appended at the end of this email.
> > > 
> > > New one on me! You are running a mainstream system (x86_64), so I am
> > > surprised no one else noticed.
> > > 
> > > Could you please send along your .config file?
> > 
> > Here it is
> 
> Interesting. I don't see RCU stuff all that high on the list, but
> the items I do see lead me to suspect RCU_FAST_NO_HZ, which has some
> relevance to the otherwise inexplicable group of commits you located
> with your bisection. Could you please rerun with CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=n?
> 
> If that helps, there are some things I could try.

It did help. I didn't notice anything unusual when running with CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=n.

Tibor
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