Re: vmstat: On demand vmstat workers V8

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Tue Aug 05 2014 - 18:27:03 EST


On 08/05/2014 10:51 AM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Aug 2014, Sasha Levin wrote:
>
>> On 07/25/2014 10:22 PM, Sasha Levin wrote:
>>> On 07/10/2014 10:04 AM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
>>>>> This patch creates a vmstat shepherd worker that monitors the
>>>>> per cpu differentials on all processors. If there are differentials
>>>>> on a processor then a vmstat worker local to the processors
>>>>> with the differentials is created. That worker will then start
>>>>> folding the diffs in regular intervals. Should the worker
>>>>> find that there is no work to be done then it will make the shepherd
>>>>> worker monitor the differentials again.
>>> Hi Christoph, all,
>>>
>>> This patch doesn't interact well with my fuzzing setup. I'm seeing
>>> the following:
>>
>> I think we got sidetracked here a bit, I've noticed that this issue
>> is still happening in -next and discussions here died out.
>
> Ok I saw in another thread that this issue has gone away. Is there an
> easy way to reproduce this on my system?
>

I don't see the VM_BUG_ON anymore, but the cpu warnings are still there.

I can easily trigger it by cranking up the cpu hotplug code. Just try to
frequently offline and online cpus, it should reproduce quickly.


Thanks,
Sasha
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