Re: Why kmem_cache_free occupy CPU for more than 10 seconds?

["Ken Chen" <kenchen@google.com>]

On 4/11/07, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 17:53 +0800, Zhao Forrest wrote:
> > I got some new information:
> > Before soft lockup message is out, we have:
> > [root@nsgsh-dhcp-149 home]# cat /proc/slabinfo |grep buffer_head
> > buffer_head       10927942 10942560    120   32    1 : tunables   32
> > 16    8 : slabdata 341955 341955      6 : globalstat 37602996 11589379
> > 1174373    6                              0    1 6918 12166031 1013708
> > : cpustat 35254590 2350698 13610965 907286
> >
> > Then after buffer_head is freed, we have:
> > [root@nsgsh-dhcp-149 home]# cat /proc/slabinfo |grep buffer_head
> > buffer_head         9542  36384    120   32    1 : tunables   32   16
> >   8 : slabdata   1137   1137    245 : globalstat 37602996 11589379
> > 1174373    6                                  0    1 6983 20507478
> > 1708818 : cpustat 35254625 2350704 16027174 1068367
> >
> > Does this huge number of buffer_head cause the soft lockup?
>
> __blkdev_put() takes the BKL and bd_mutex
> invalidate_mapping_pages() tries to take the PageLock
>
> But no other looks seem held while free_buffer_head() is called
>
> All these locks are preemptible (CONFIG_PREEMPT_BKL?=y) and should not
> hog the cpu like that, what preemption mode have you got selected?
> (CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY?=y)

also, you can try this patch:

http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/browse_thread/thread/7086e4b9d5504dc9/c608bfea4614b07e?lnk=gst&q=+Big+kernel+lock+contention+in+do_open&rnum=1#c608bfea4614b07e

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