Re: [PATCH] Fix /proc/stat freezes (was [PATCH v15] "task_isolation" mode)

2016-09-28 Thread Frederic Weisbecker
On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 02:37:46PM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2016, Chris Metcalf wrote: > Subject: NOHZ: Correctly display increasing cputime when processor is busy > > The tick may be switched off when the processor gets busy with nohz full. > The user time fields in /proc/

Re: [PATCH] Fix /proc/stat freezes (was [PATCH v15] "task_isolation" mode)

2016-08-20 Thread Chris Metcalf
On 8/17/2016 3:37 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote: On Tue, 16 Aug 2016, Chris Metcalf wrote: - Dropped Christoph Lameter's patch to avoid scheduling the clocksource watchdog on nohz cores; the recommendation is to just boot with tsc=reliable for NOHZ in any case, if necessary. We also said t

[PATCH] Fix /proc/stat freezes (was [PATCH v15] "task_isolation" mode)

2016-08-17 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Tue, 16 Aug 2016, Chris Metcalf wrote: > - Dropped Christoph Lameter's patch to avoid scheduling the > clocksource watchdog on nohz cores; the recommendation is to just > boot with tsc=reliable for NOHZ in any case, if necessary. We also said that there should be a WARN_ON if tsc=reliable