From d72bce0e67e8afc6eb959f656013cbb577426f1e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 13:34:51 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] rcu: Cure load woes Commit cc3ce5176d83 (rcu: Start RCU kthreads in TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE state) fudges a sleeping task' state, resulting in the scheduler seeing a TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE task going to sleep, but a TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE task waking up. The result is unbalanced load calculation. The problem that patch tried to address is that the RCU threads could stay in UNINTERRUPTIBLE state for quite a while and triggering the hung task detector due to on-demand wake-ups. Cure the problem differently by always giving the tasks at least one wake-up once the CPU is fully up and running, this will kick them out of the initial UNINTERRUPTIBLE state and into the regular INTERRUPTIBLE wait state. [ The alternative would be teaching kthread_create() to start threads as INTERRUPTIBLE but that needs a tad more thought. ] Reported-by: Damien Wyart Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306755291.1200.2872.camel@twins Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Reading git-format-patch failed