Subject: Re: Stop machine threads are getting preemted by the rt period
	enforcement
From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
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       "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>,
       Paul Menage <menage@google.com>, "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>,
       suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
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Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:18:26 +0200
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On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 11:07 -0700, Max Krasnyansky wrote:
> Peter, Ingo,
> 
> Take a look at the report below (came up during isolcpu= remove discussions).
> 
> It looks like stop_machine threads are getting forcefully preempted because
> they exceed their RT quanta. It's strange because rt period is pretty long.
> But given that disabling rt period logic solves the issue the machine was not
> really stuck.

Yeah, I know, I'm already looking at this

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