Bug 1356717

Summary: tuned-profiles-nfv: add rcu_nocbs to kernel cmd-line
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino>
Component: tunedAssignee: Jaroslav Škarvada <jskarvad>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
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Version: 7.3CC: jeder, jskarvad, williams
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Description Luiz Capitulino 2016-07-14 20:42:51 UTC
Description of problem:

Starting with kernel-rt-3.10.0-439.rt56.327.el7, we now have CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE=y (instead of CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL=y). This means that we're required to specify no-CBs CPUs with rcu_nocbs=. Otherwise we'll run into spikes.

The [bootloader] section in both guest and host tuned.conf must have the following option:

rcu_nocbs=${isolated_cores}


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): tuned-2.5.1-7.el7.noarch

Comment 1 Luiz Capitulino 2016-07-14 20:46:37 UTC
Two additional notes:

- I'm not sure if the realtime profile should get this option too (probably yes)

- There seems to be a bug with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE=y where processes get stuck in D state during system boot. This issue is workarounded by rcu_nocbs=

Comment 2 Jaroslav Škarvada 2016-07-15 14:39:35 UTC
I guess this is dupe of bug 1334479. If not, please reopen.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1334479 ***