Re: Performance regressions in "boot_time" tests in Linux 5.8 Kernel

2020-12-13 Thread b...@redhat.com
ad. Please feel free to help test and add your Tested-by: tag in the patch thread if possible. > > > > From: Rahul Gopakumar > Sent: 24 November 2020 8:33 PM > To: b...@redhat.com > Cc: linux...@kvack.org ; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > ; a...@linux-foundation.org

Re: Performance regressions in "boot_time" tests in Linux 5.8 Kernel

2020-11-21 Thread b...@redhat.com
On 11/20/20 at 03:11am, Rahul Gopakumar wrote: > Hi Baoquan, > > To which commit should we apply the draft patch. We tried applying > the patch to the commit 3e4fb4346c781068610d03c12b16c0cfb0fd24a3 > (the one we used for applying the previous patch) but it fails. I tested on 5.10-rc3+. You can a

Re: Performance regressions in "boot_time" tests in Linux 5.8 Kernel

2020-11-12 Thread b...@redhat.com
On 11/03/20 at 12:34pm, Rahul Gopakumar wrote: > >> So, you mean with the draft patch applied, the initial performance > regression goes away, just many page corruption errors with call trace > are seen, right? > > Yes, that's right. > > >> And the performance regression is about 2sec delay in >

Re: Performance regressions in "boot_time" tests in Linux 5.8 Kernel

2020-11-03 Thread b...@redhat.com
On 11/03/20 at 12:34pm, Rahul Gopakumar wrote: > >> So, you mean with the draft patch applied, the initial performance > regression goes away, just many page corruption errors with call trace > are seen, right? > > Yes, that's right. > > >> And the performance regression is about 2sec delay in >

Re: Performance regressions in "boot_time" tests in Linux 5.8 Kernel

2020-11-02 Thread b...@redhat.com
tal system with more than 1T memory, didn't see the page corruption call trace, need reproduce and have a look. > > > > From: Rahul Gopakumar > Sent: 22 October 2020 10:51 PM > To: b...@redhat.com > Cc: linux...@kva

Re: Performance regressions in "boot_time" tests in Linux 5.8 Kernel

2020-10-21 Thread b...@redhat.com
Hi Rahul, On 10/20/20 at 03:26pm, Rahul Gopakumar wrote: > >> Here, do you mean it even cost more time with the patch applied? > > Yes, we ran it multiple times and it looks like there is a > very minor increase with the patch. > ..  > On 10/20/20 at 01:45pm, Rahul Gopakumar wrote: > > Hi B

Re: Performance regressions in "boot_time" tests in Linux 5.8 Kernel

2020-10-20 Thread b...@redhat.com
> -                       memmap_init_zone(size, nid, zone, start_pfn, > +                       memmap_init_zone(size, nid, zone, start_pfn, > range_end_pfn, >                                           MEMINIT_EARLY, NULL); >                  } >          } > > > -

Re: Performance regressions in "boot_time" tests in Linux 5.8 Kernel

2020-10-13 Thread b...@redhat.com
Hi Rahul, On 10/12/20 at 05:21pm, Rahul Gopakumar wrote: > Hi Baoquan, > > Attached collected dmesg logs for with and without > commit after adding memblock=debug to kernel cmdline. Can you test below draft patch and see if it works for you? >From a2ea6caef3c73ad9efb2dd2b48039065fe430bb2 Mon S

Re: Performance regressions in "boot_time" tests in Linux 5.8 Kernel

2020-10-12 Thread b...@redhat.com
On 10/12/20 at 05:21pm, Rahul Gopakumar wrote: > Hi Baoquan, > > Attached collected dmesg logs for with and without > commit after adding memblock=debug to kernel cmdline. Thanks, I have got the root cause, will make a patch for your testing soon.

Re: Performance regressions in "boot_time" tests in Linux 5.8 Kernel

2020-10-09 Thread b...@redhat.com
On 10/09/20 at 01:15pm, Rahul Gopakumar wrote: > As part of VMware's performance regression testing for Linux Kernel > upstream releases, we identified boot time increase when comparing > Linux 5.8 kernel against Linux 5.7 kernel. Increase in boot time is > noticeable on VM with a **large amount of

Re: [PATCH v2] x86/boot: Use EFI setup data if provided

2019-03-26 Thread b...@redhat.com
Hi Junichi, On 03/26/19 at 02:57pm, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 11:10:01PM +, Junichi Nomura wrote: > > efi_get_rsdp_addr() and kexec_get_rsdp_addr() could be implemented > > like this (sorry about the pseudo code): > > This doesn't look like what I suggested: > > > So e

Re: [PATCH v7 12/13] ACPI / init: Invoke early ACPI initialization earlier

2017-07-31 Thread b...@redhat.com
On 07/31/17 at 07:20pm, Dou Liyang wrote: > Hi Baoquan, > > At 07/27/2017 02:08 PM, b...@redhat.com wrote: > > On 07/26/17 at 08:19pm, Dou Liyang wrote: > > > Hi Baoquan, > [...] > > > > > > I am looking for Thinkpad x121e (AMD E-450 APU) to test. I h

Re: [PATCH v7 12/13] ACPI / init: Invoke early ACPI initialization earlier

2017-07-26 Thread b...@redhat.com
init/main.c > +++ b/init/main.c > @@ -655,12 +655,12 @@ asmlinkage __visible void __init start_kernel(void) > kmemleak_init(); > setup_per_cpu_pageset(); > numa_policy_init(); > - acpi_early_init(); > if (late_time_init) > late_time_init();

Re: [PATCH v7 12/13] ACPI / init: Invoke early ACPI initialization earlier

2017-07-18 Thread b...@redhat.com
om] > > > Sent: Friday, July 14, 2017 1:53 PM > > > To: x...@kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > > Cc: t...@linutronix.de; mi...@kernel.org; h...@zytor.com; > > > ebied...@xmission.com; b...@redhat.com; > > > pet...@infradead.org; izumi.t...@jp.

Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Fix dump-capture kernel hangs with notsc

2016-08-02 Thread b...@redhat.com
On 08/02/16 at 07:45am, Wei, Jiangang wrote: > Hi Eric, > > Thanks for your reply firstly. > > On Mon, 2016-08-01 at 12:09 -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > "Wei, Jiangang" writes: > > > > > Ping ... > > > May I ask for some community attention to this series? > > > I purpose is fixing the d

Re: [PATCH 0/3] Enable legacy irq mode before jump to kexec/kdump kernel

2016-07-19 Thread b...@redhat.com
On 07/20/16 at 08:32am, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jul 2016, b...@redhat.com wrote: > > On 07/20/16 at 03:54am, Wei, Jiangang wrote: > > > > > In fact, Eric and Ingo suggested that "it should be fixed in the bootup > > > path of the dump kernel, no

Re: [PATCH 0/3] Enable legacy irq mode before jump to kexec/kdump kernel

2016-07-19 Thread b...@redhat.com
On 07/20/16 at 03:54am, Wei, Jiangang wrote: > Hi Baoquan He, > > Well, Indeed there‘s a relationship between the dump-capture hangs in > calibrate_delay_converge() and the interrupt mode. > > but there‘s no essential difference between your patches and mine that > calls disable_IO_APIC() again.

Re: [PATCH 0/3] Enable legacy irq mode before jump to kexec/kdump kernel

2016-07-19 Thread b...@redhat.com
Hi Jiangang, On 07/20/16 at 03:54am, Wei, Jiangang wrote: > Hi Baoquan He, > > Well, Indeed there‘s a relationship between the dump-capture hangs in > calibrate_delay_converge() and the interrupt mode. > > but there‘s no essential difference between your patches and mine that > calls disable_IO_

Re: v4.4-rc1: /dev/console open fails with -EIO

2015-12-16 Thread b...@redhat.com
Hi Junichi, A little earlier Peter Hurley has posted a patch to fix this problem. https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/11/27/546 It may be found firstly on arm by Pratyush Anand . I found it too this week on Fedora 23. Anyway, it's great problem has been fixed very quickly. Just reply to let you know this