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Bug 1452357 - realtime-virtual-guest: not safe to run PMD thread with fifo:1
Summary: realtime-virtual-guest: not safe to run PMD thread with fifo:1
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: tuned
Version: 7.4
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Jaroslav Škarvada
QA Contact: Tereza Cerna
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Blocks: kvm-rt-tuned 1438120
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Reported: 2017-05-18 18:28 UTC by Luiz Capitulino
Modified: 2017-10-29 21:12 UTC (History)
12 users (show)

Fixed In Version: tuned-2.8.0-5.el7
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Last Closed: 2017-08-01 12:35:21 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2017:2102 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE tuned bug fix and enhancement update 2017-08-01 16:07:33 UTC

Description Luiz Capitulino 2017-05-18 18:28:05 UTC 
Description of problem:

The realtime-virtual-guest profile doesn't allow for running a PMD thread with fifo:1 priority in the guest. This is so because the profile doesn't organizes CPU bound kernel threads into FIFO slots as done by the realtime-virtual-host profile.

This is how the realtime-virtual-host profile organizes kernel threads into FIFO slots:

   151  FF   4  [rcuc/15] *
   153  FF   3  [ktimersoftd/15] *
   154  FF   2  [ksoftirqd/15] *

As we can see, rcuc > ktimersoftd > ksoftirqd. This allows for running a PMD thread with fifo:1 without running into the risk of starving those important threads.

However, the realtime-virtual-guest doesn't do any of this:

    17  FF   2  [rcuc/1] *
    19  FF   1  [ktimersoftd/1] *
    20  TS   -  [ksoftirqd/1] *

So, a PMD thread running in the guest with fifo:1 can starve ktimersoftd and ksoftirqd should those threads ever become runnable.

The solution should be the realtime-virtual-guest profile to assign FIFO priority to kernel threads the same way the realtime-virtual-host is doing.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): tuned-2.8.0-3.el7.noarch
Comment 2 Jaroslav Škarvada 2017-05-29 15:42:57 UTC 
Upstream commit:
https://github.com/redhat-performance/tuned/commit/1ab378cc4a4372ca031bb765f656ab463b28af88
Comment 13 Luiz Capitulino 2017-06-13 14:47:58 UTC 
I've verified the kernel threads priorities in the guest are now correct. I've also run a quick cyclictest measurement test and it worked fine.
Comment 14 Tereza Cerna 2017-06-14 13:45:52 UTC 
Thank you, Luiz, for your test.

I did some other test. It works as expected -> VERIFIED.

Existing test was repaired for this issue. See /CoreOS/tuned/Regression/create-new-nfv-profiles.

===============================================
Verified in:
    tuned-2.8.0-5.el7.noarch
    tuned-profiles-nfv-guest-2.8.0-5.el7.noarch
PASS
===============================================

# tuned-adm profile realtime-virtual-guest

# ps axo pid,class,rtprio,comm | grep 'ktimersoft\|softirq\|rcuc\|rcub'
    3 FF       2 ksoftirqd/0
   12 FF       2 ksoftirqd/1
   18 FF       2 ksoftirqd/2
   24 FF       2 ksoftirqd/3
   30 FF       2 ksoftirqd/4
   34 FF       2 ksoftirqd/5
   38 FF       2 ksoftirqd/6
   42 FF       2 ksoftirqd/7
 9144 FF       3 ktimersoftd
 9150 FF       4 rcub
 9156 FF       4 rcuc

===============================================
Reproduced in:
    tuned-2.8.0-3.el7.noarch
    tuned-profiles-nfv-guest-2.8.0-3.el7.noarch
FAIL
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# tuned-adm profile realtime-virtual-guest

# ps axo pid,class,rtprio,comm | grep 'ktimersoft\|softirq\|rcuc\|rcub'
    3 TS       - ksoftirqd/0
   12 TS       - ksoftirqd/1
   18 TS       - ksoftirqd/2
   24 TS       - ksoftirqd/3
   30 TS       - ksoftirqd/4
   34 TS       - ksoftirqd/5
   38 TS       - ksoftirqd/6
   42 TS       - ksoftirqd/7
 9943 TS       - ktimersoftd
 9947 TS       - rcub
 9949 TS       - rcuc
Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-01 12:35:21 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2017:2102
Comment 16 Fedora Update System 2017-10-13 14:20:34 UTC 
tuned-2.9.0-0.1.rc1.fc26 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 26. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-d9c6b990df
Comment 17 Fedora Update System 2017-10-29 21:06:48 UTC 
tuned-2.9.0-1.fc27 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 27. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-0e45ce4685
Comment 18 Fedora Update System 2017-10-29 21:12:55 UTC 
tuned-2.9.0-1.fc26 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 26. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-c30e9bd1ea
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