Re: v2.6.21.4-rt11

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Mon Jun 11 2007 - 11:55:46 EST


On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 05:38:55PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > hm, what affinity do they start out with? Could they all be pinned
> > > to CPU#0 by default?
> >
> > They start off with affinity masks of 0xf on a 4-CPU system. I would
> > expect them to load-balance across the four CPUs, but they stay all on
> > the same CPU until long after I lose patience (many minutes).
>
> ugh. Would be nice to figure out why this happens. I enabled rcutorture
> on a dual-core CPU and all the threads are spread evenly.

Here is the /proc/cpuinfo in case this helps. I am starting up a test
on a dual-core CPU to see if that works better.

Thanx, Paul

processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 15
model : 5
model name : AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 844
stepping : 8
cpu MHz : 1793.105
cache size : 1024 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall mmxext lm 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips : 3522.56

processor : 1
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 15
model : 5
model name : AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 844
stepping : 8
cpu MHz : 1793.105
cache size : 1024 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall mmxext lm 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips : 3579.90

processor : 2
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 15
model : 5
model name : AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 844
stepping : 8
cpu MHz : 1793.105
cache size : 1024 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall mmxext lm 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips : 3579.90

processor : 3
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 15
model : 5
model name : AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 844
stepping : 8
cpu MHz : 1793.105
cache size : 1024 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall mmxext lm 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips : 3579.90

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