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SubjectRe: unpredictability in scheduler test results -- still present

* Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com> wrote:

> Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> * Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com> wrote:
>
>>> It turns out that disabling CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE makes the load
>>> balancing problem go away and causes all cpus to be used.
>>>
>>> With this option enabled, the problem seems to be present as far back
>>> as 2.6.27-rc2. (2.6.27-rc1 doesn't compile on my machine, and 2.6.26
>>> doesn't have ftrace).
>>>
>>> I have no idea why turning on dynamic ftrace would affect load
>>> balancing behaviour, but it's very repeatable. The very first test
>>> run after booting works fine, and all successive runs fail to balance
>>> properly.
>
>> OTOH, what does 'truning on dftrace' exactly mean? Just enabling it in
>> the .config, or also activating it via /debug/tracing/current_tracer?
>
> Just enabling it in the .config is enough to trigger the behaviour
> change. I'm not explicitly activating any traces.

ok, that would be a clear ftrace bug i guess?

Ingo


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