Re: Very high CPU values in top on idle system (3.0-rc1)

[Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>]

On 2011.05.30 at 20:23 +0200, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> On 2011.05.30 at 20:05 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 19:39 +0200, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> > > I get very high CPU values when I run 'top' on my (mostly) idle system
> > > with 3.0-rc1. For example mpd was always in the 1-2% range and is now
> > > constantly over 50%. 
> > > 
> > > This is caused by:
> > > 
> > > commit 317f394160e9beb97d19a84c39b7e5eb3d7815a8
> > > Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
> > > Date:   Tue Apr 5 17:23:58 2011 +0200
> > > 
> > >     sched: Move the second half of ttwu() to the remote cpu
> > > 
> > > When I revert the above I see sane CPU values again.
> > 
> > So: echo NO_TTWU_QUEUE > /debug/sched_features, also cures it?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > What architecture, what .config, and can you see it with anything other
> > than mpd (yum search mpd, only seems to result in mpd clients not the
> > actual server).
> 
> Yes, mpd was just an example. _Every_ program that would normally show in
> the 1-5% CPU range is now in the 30-70% range (X, xterm, etc.).

IOW:

% sudo echo TTWU_QUEUE >| /sys/kernel/debug/sched_features
% top -b -n 1
top - 22:40:38 up  1:46, 11 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.05
Tasks: 109 total,   1 running, 108 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  1.0%us,  0.9%sy,  0.0%ni, 98.0%id,  0.1%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   8183132k total,  1365724k used,  6817408k free,     1632k buffers
Swap:  2097148k total,        0k used,  2097148k free,   655208k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
  881 mpd       20   0  122m  20m 4832 S   74  0.3   4:25.22 mpd
 1564 root      20   0 99428  40m 4716 S   36  0.5   3:36.15 X
 1648 markus    20   0 1147m 340m  39m S   16  4.3   1:17.90 firefox-bin
 1649 markus    20   0  237m  33m  17m S    6  0.4   1:02.31 konsole

% sudo echo NO_TTWU_QUEUE >| /sys/kernel/debug/sched_features
% top -b -n 1
top - 22:42:07 up  1:48, 11 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05
Tasks: 110 total,   1 running, 109 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  1.0%us,  0.9%sy,  0.0%ni, 98.0%id,  0.1%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   8183132k total,  1377308k used,  6805824k free,     1632k buffers
Swap:  2097148k total,        0k used,  2097148k free,   659896k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 1649 markus    20   0  237m  33m  17m S    2  0.4   1:17.69 konsole
    1 root      20   0   160   28   12 S    0  0.0   0:16.95 minit
    2 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.36 kthreadd


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Markus