From: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] mm: silence soft lockups from unlock_page
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2020 10:15:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200721141539.GA3696@lca.pw> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200721133835.GL4061@dhcp22.suse.cz>
On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 03:38:35PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Tue 21-07-20 09:23:44, Qian Cai wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 02:17:52PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > On Tue 21-07-20 07:44:07, Qian Cai wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > On Jul 21, 2020, at 7:25 AM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Are these really important? I believe I can dig that out from the bug
> > > > > report but I didn't really consider that important enough.
> > > >
> > > > Please dig them out. We have also been running those things on
> > > > “large” powerpc as well and never saw such soft-lockups. Those
> > > > details may give us some clues about the actual problem.
> > >
> > > I strongly suspect this is not really relevant but just FYI this is
> > > 16Node, 11.9TB with 1536CPUs system.
> >
> > Okay, we are now talking about the HPC special case. Just brain-storming some
> > ideas here.
> >
> >
> > 1) What about increase the soft-lockup threshold early at boot and restore
> > afterwards? As far as I can tell, those soft-lockups are just a few bursts of
> > things and then cure itself after the booting.
>
> Is this really better option than silencing soft lockup from the code
> itself? What if the same access pattern happens later on?
It is better because it does not require a code change? Did your customers see
the similar soft-lockups after booting was done?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-21 14:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-21 6:32 Michal Hocko
2020-07-21 11:10 ` Qian Cai
2020-07-21 11:25 ` Michal Hocko
2020-07-21 11:44 ` Qian Cai
2020-07-21 12:17 ` Michal Hocko
2020-07-21 13:23 ` Qian Cai
2020-07-21 13:38 ` Michal Hocko
2020-07-21 14:15 ` Qian Cai [this message]
2020-07-21 14:17 ` Chris Down
2020-07-21 15:00 ` Michal Hocko
2020-07-21 15:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-07-21 15:49 ` Michal Hocko
2020-07-22 18:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-07-22 21:29 ` Hugh Dickins
2020-07-22 22:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-07-22 23:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-07-23 0:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-07-23 12:47 ` Oleg Nesterov
2020-07-23 17:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-07-23 18:01 ` Oleg Nesterov
2020-07-23 18:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-07-23 19:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-07-24 14:45 ` Oleg Nesterov
2020-07-23 20:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-07-23 23:11 ` Hugh Dickins
2020-07-23 23:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-07-24 0:07 ` Hugh Dickins
2020-07-24 0:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-07-24 3:45 ` Hugh Dickins
2020-07-24 15:24 ` Oleg Nesterov
2020-07-24 17:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-07-24 23:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-07-25 2:08 ` Hugh Dickins
2020-07-25 2:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-07-25 10:14 ` Oleg Nesterov
2020-07-25 18:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-07-25 19:27 ` Oleg Nesterov
2020-07-25 19:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-07-26 13:57 ` Oleg Nesterov
2020-07-25 21:19 ` Hugh Dickins
2020-07-26 4:22 ` Hugh Dickins
2020-07-26 20:30 ` Hugh Dickins
2020-07-26 20:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-07-26 22:09 ` Hugh Dickins
2020-07-27 19:35 ` Greg KH
2020-08-06 5:46 ` Hugh Dickins
2020-08-18 13:50 ` Greg KH
2020-08-06 5:21 ` Hugh Dickins
2020-08-06 17:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-08-06 18:00 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-08-06 18:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-08-07 18:41 ` Hugh Dickins
2020-08-07 19:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-08-07 19:35 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-08-03 13:14 ` Michal Hocko
2020-08-03 17:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-07-25 9:39 ` Oleg Nesterov
2020-07-23 8:03 ` Michal Hocko
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