On 7/1/2013 10:49 PM, Rusty Russell wrote:
Chegu Vinod <chegu_vi...@hp.com> writes:
On 6/30/2013 11:22 PM, Rusty Russell wrote:
Chegu Vinod <chegu_vi...@hp.com> writes:
Hello,

Lots (~700+) of the following messages are showing up in the dmesg of a
3.10-rc1 based kernel (Host OS is running on a large socket count box
with HT-on).

[   82.270682] PERCPU: allocation failed, size=42 align=16, alloc from
reserved chunk failed
[   82.272633] kvm_intel: Could not allocate 42 bytes percpu data
Woah, weird....

Oh.  Shit.  Um, this is embarrassing.

Thanks,
Rusty.

Thanks for your response!

===
module: do percpu allocation after uniqueness check.  No, really!

v3.8-rc1-5-g1fb9341 was supposed to stop parallel kvm loads exhausting
percpu memory on large machines:

      Now we have a new state MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED, we can insert the
      module into the list (and thus guarantee its uniqueness) before we
      allocate the per-cpu region.

In my defence, it didn't actually say the patch did this.  Just that
we "can".

This patch actually *does* it.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <ru...@rustcorp.com.au>
Tested-by: Noone it seems.
Your following "updated" fix seems to be working fine on the larger
socket count machine with HT-on.
OK, did you definitely revert every other workaround?

Yes no other workarounds were there when your change was tested.


If so, please give me a Tested-by: line...

FYI.... The actual verification of your change was done by my esteemed colleague :Jim Hull (cc'd) who had access to this larger socket count box.



Tested-by: Jim Hull <jim.h...@hp.com>




Thanks
Vinod



Thanks,
Rusty.
.


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