RE: [PATCH] Kick CPUS that might be sleeping in cpus_idle_wait

2008-01-10 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote: > > > With 2.6.23, you can try compiling acpi processor.ko as a module and > doing insmod and rmmod in a loop. That should call cpu_idle_wait very > frequently. The thing is, after the full boot, there's too many things going on to keep a system fu

RE: [PATCH] Kick CPUS that might be sleeping in cpus_idle_wait

2008-01-10 Thread Pallipadi, Venkatesh
Belay; Peter Zijlstra; >Andi Kleen >Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kick CPUS that might be sleeping in cpus_idle_wait > > > >On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote: >> > FYI, I just hit this hang on 2.6.24-rc6 without any extra >patches. So, >> > unless 2.6.24-rc7 did anythi

Re: [PATCH] Kick CPUS that might be sleeping in cpus_idle_wait

2008-01-10 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > FYI, I just hit this hang on 2.6.24-rc6 without any extra patches. So, > > unless 2.6.24-rc7 did anything to fix this issue, this is a high > > priority bug (IMHO). > > i'm wondering why this only triggered now. Is this something new in > 2.6.24? It on

Re: [PATCH] Kick CPUS that might be sleeping in cpus_idle_wait

2008-01-10 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 15:42 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > This patch is different than the first patch I sent out. > > This one just sends an IPI to all CPUS that don't check in after 1 sec. > > > > > > Sometimes cpu_idle_wait gets stuck because

RE: [PATCH] Kick CPUS that might be sleeping in cpus_idle_wait

2008-01-09 Thread Pallipadi, Venkatesh
>-Original Message- >From: Steven Rostedt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 12:42 PM >To: LKML >Cc: Linus Torvalds; Andrew Morton; Ingo Molnar; Thomas >Gleixner; Brown, Len; Pallipadi, Venkatesh; Adam Belay; Peter >Zijlstra; Andi Kleen >Subject: [PATCH] Kick

Re: [PATCH] Kick CPUS that might be sleeping in cpus_idle_wait

2008-01-09 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Subject: [PATCH] Kick CPUS that might be sleeping in cpus_idle_wait > > s/cpus_/cpu_/ I've been up to 4am writing patches. I must be seeing double :-/ > > { > > unsigned int cpu, this_cpu = get_cpu(); > > @@ -228,6 +232,13 @@ void cpu_idle_wai

Re: [PATCH] Kick CPUS that might be sleeping in cpus_idle_wait

2008-01-09 Thread Andrew Morton
> Subject: [PATCH] Kick CPUS that might be sleeping in cpus_idle_wait s/cpus_/cpu_/ On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:42:10 -0500 Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This patch is different than the first patch I sent out. > This one just sends an IPI to all CPUS that don't check in after 1 sec. >

Re: [PATCH] Kick CPUS that might be sleeping in cpus_idle_wait

2008-01-09 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 15:42 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > This patch is different than the first patch I sent out. > This one just sends an IPI to all CPUS that don't check in after 1 sec. > > > Sometimes cpu_idle_wait gets stuck because it might miss CPUS that are > already in idle, have no tas