2015-11-02 20:39 GMT+03:00 Dave Hansen <dave.han...@intel.com>:
> On 11/02/2015 01:32 AM, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
>> And the major factor here is number 2.
>>
>> In your dmesg:
>> [   67.891156] rbtree testing -> 570841 cycles
>> [   88.609636] augmented rbtree testing
>> [  116.546697] NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s!
>> [swapper/0:1]
>>
>>
>> I've tried to reproduce this, and got this:
>> [    0.693574] rbtree testing -> 15513 cycles
>> 570841/15513 = 36x times faster.
>>
>> [    1.159450] augmented rbtree testing -> 23675 cycles
>> [    1.864996]
>> It took less than a second, meanwhile in your case it didn't finish in
>> 22 seconds.
>>
>> This makes me think that your host is overloaded and the problem is on
>> your side.
>
> It's probably just a matter of putting some cond_resched()s in the test
> code.

Yes, but is it worthwhile? It's very likely that lockup will just
trigger in another place.
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