On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 09:16:31AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jan 2017 05:46:08 -0800 > "Paul E. McKenney" <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: > > > I suggest enabling tracing for timers with a goal of working out why > > the rcu_sched task is not being awakened regularly -- during a grace > > period, it should be awakened every three jiffies or so (depending on > > the value of HZ). > > Perhaps enable events for rcu, sched and irqs as well?
Good point -- but you will need to build with CONFIG_RCU_TRACE=y to get most of the RCU events. Thanx, Paul