Subject: Re: [lkp] [fs] df4c0e36f1: NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0
 stuck for 22s! [swapper/0:1]
To: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>,
        kernel test robot <ying.huang@linux.intel.com>
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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
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Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 09:39:42 -0800
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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.
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