Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757339AbYHaIwA (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Aug 2008 04:52:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752211AbYHaIvu (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Aug 2008 04:51:50 -0400 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.181]:6640 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751495AbYHaIvs (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Aug 2008 04:51:48 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=tLpAhcuGYgWitB86LZaQXjfszjcPtAZBxrO8LumAXwgzIcuvmjlLt3zvOBmAhgHST+ pwoxkWwbCEfWi8Z2JgvC9KgnvipoeVeJI+QZB6GEMIjAQHNHBlRNjbEjAKNGdZewCThy lLxXgNSAL2tnZXg7LRxsY427l7O2zNNf9+dIw= Message-ID: Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 10:51:46 +0200 From: "Dushan Tcholich" To: "Francois Romieu" Subject: Re: ksoftirqd high cpu load on kernels 2.6.24 to 2.6.27-rc1-mm1 Cc: "Robert Hancock" , netdev@vger.kernel.org, LKML In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <48975BD3.6040709@shaw.ca> <20080807185802.GA16327@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 6537 Lines: 155 Hello I found the culprit. When using powertop I get: Top causes for wakeups: 35,2% (251,0) ip : br_stp_enable_bridge (br_hello_timer_expired So I tried to turn them off with: brctl sethello br0 0 but the problem persisted. If I do brctl sethello br0 5 context switch rate drops 200 times and problem is gone. I think that the command brctl sethello br0 0 doesn't turn off hello messages, but sends them 250 times per second. Thanks for your time Dushan On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 3:48 AM, Dushan Tcholich wrote: > Hello again > > > On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Dushan Tcholich wrote: >> Hi >> >> On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 9:00 PM, Dushan Tcholich wrote: >>> Hi >>> Sorry for answering this late, but I was short on time and couldn't >>> get reiser4 to work with 2.6.27-rc2 >>> >>> On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Francois Romieu wrote: >>>> Dushan Tcholich : >>>> [...] >>>>> I googled a little and found out that oprofile is a little above my head. >>>>> So as I thought that some driver or HW might be responsible for this I >>>>> tried to disable various onboard HW and found out that if I disable >>>>> onboard ethernet problem dissapears, so now I've added netdev and >>>>> maintainer of R8169 driver to cc. >>>> >>>> Can you try 2.6.27-rc2 and send the content of /proc/interrupts, dmesg, >>>> ifconfig as well as a capture of the strange output from top ? >>>> >> >> I tried some more kernels and I had the same problem with 2.6.23.17 >> and 2.6.27-rc1-mm1, but I couldn't reproduce it with kernel from >> sysresccd 1.0.1 http://www.sysresccd.org/ which is a patched version >> of 2.6.24 i think .7 when I booted it to change fs. >> Could it be that something in userspace is creating this? >> > > I dug a little more and found out some new info. > Unsolved bugreport with same symptoms: > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119613299024398&w=2 > Problems appear if I start br0 interface, as context switch rate > increases 200 times. If I start eth0 instead everything looks ok. > The bugreport above had bridging enabled too. > > When using eth0 I get: > vmstat -n 1 10 > procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu---- > r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa > 2 0 17720 162288 25024 576852 0 0 21 22 6 9 10 4 85 0 > 0 0 17720 162196 25024 576880 0 0 0 0 13 473 0 0 99 0 > 0 0 17720 162196 25028 576880 0 0 0 4 36 1122 1 0 99 0 > 0 0 17720 162196 25028 576880 0 0 0 0 83 844 0 0 99 0 > 0 0 17720 162196 25028 576880 0 0 0 0 55 691 1 0 99 0 > 0 0 17720 162556 25028 576880 0 0 0 0 13 490 1 0 100 0 > 0 0 17720 162100 25028 576880 0 0 0 0 39 561 6 0 94 0 > 1 0 17720 162028 25028 576880 0 0 0 0 16 1030 4 0 96 0 > 0 0 17720 162028 25028 576880 0 0 0 0 40 597 1 0 99 0 > 0 0 17720 162028 25028 576880 0 0 0 0 12 512 2 0 97 0 > > top > > top - 03:30:07 up 6 days, 5:40, 4 users, load average: 0.02, 0.11, 0.28 > Tasks: 149 total, 2 running, 147 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie > Cpu(s): 12.1%us, 3.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 84.6%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st > Mem: 1033388k total, 871336k used, 162052k free, 25016k buffers > Swap: 610460k total, 17720k used, 592740k free, 576852k cached > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > > 4 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 554:23.44 ksoftirqd/0 > > If I use br0 I get: > vmstat -n 1 10 > procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu---- > r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa > 0 0 17720 162112 25048 577120 0 0 21 22 6 11 10 4 86 0 > 0 0 17720 162152 25048 577120 0 0 0 0 14 111082 0 3 97 0 > 0 0 17720 162152 25048 577120 0 0 0 0 23 107134 1 3 96 0 > 1 0 17720 160148 25048 577120 0 0 0 0 11 109888 2 3 95 0 > 0 0 17720 162032 25048 577120 0 0 0 0 33 108163 1 2 97 0 > 0 0 17720 162032 25048 577120 0 0 0 0 7 104642 2 2 95 0 > 0 0 17720 162020 25048 577120 0 0 0 0 41 109135 0 2 98 0 > 0 0 17720 162036 25048 577120 0 0 0 0 9 105133 0 3 96 0 > 0 0 17720 162020 25048 577120 0 0 0 0 42 107605 1 2 97 0 > 1 0 17720 162032 25048 577120 0 0 0 0 5 110768 0 2 98 0 > > top > > top - 03:32:03 up 6 days, 5:41, 4 users, load average: 0.09, 0.10, 0.26 > Tasks: 148 total, 2 running, 146 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie > Cpu(s): 4.8%us, 2.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 93.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.2%si, 0.0%st > Mem: 1033388k total, 871564k used, 161824k free, 25048k buffers > Swap: 610460k total, 17720k used, 592740k free, 577120k cached > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > 11489 dusan 20 0 235m 85m 24m R 6 8.5 1:03.51 firefox > 4 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 7 0.0 554:24.04 ksoftirqd/0 > > I start br0 like this in /etc/conf.d/net > > bridge_br0="eth0" > config_eth0=( "null" ) > config_br0=( "192.168.1.3/24" ) > RC_NEED_br0="net.eth0" > brctl_br0=( "setfd 0" "sethello 0" "stp off" ) > #routes_br0=( "default gw 192.168.1.3" ) > depend_br0() { > need net.eth0 > } > > I start eth0 like this in /etc/conf.d/net > config_eth0=( "192.168.1.3/24" ) > >>> I've copied my root to ext3 partition and with vanilla 2.6.27-rc2 I got: >>> -With my .config problem is still here >>> -With only rtl8169 removed from config there is no problem >>> >>>> It seems rather benign though. >>>> >>> Well I wouldn't agree from power managment standpoint :). This nic is >>> in a lot of laptops. >>> 8% of 2.13GHz Core2Duo CPU is a lot :) >>> >>> Btw. should LKML be removed from cc? >>> If you need any more help please ask. >>> I hope I'm not harrasing you too much :) >>>> -- >>>> Ueimor >>>> >>> Have a nice day >>> Dushan >>> >> ... >> > Have a nice day > Dushan > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/