Bug 790899 - irqbalance: WARNING, didn't collect load info for all cpus, balancing is broken
Summary: irqbalance: WARNING, didn't collect load info for all cpus, balancing is broken
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: irqbalance
Version: 16
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Petr Holasek
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-02-15 17:11 UTC by Bob Arendt
Modified: 2016-10-04 04:08 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: irqbalance-1.0.3-3.fc16
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2012-03-17 23:55:24 UTC
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Description Bob Arendt 2012-02-15 17:11:04 UTC
Description of problem:
The following message is output once a minute to /var/log/messages:
/usr/sbin/irqbalance: WARNING, didn't collect load info for all cpus, balancing is broken


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
irqbalance-1.0.3-2.fc16.x86_64


How reproducible:
always


Steps to Reproduce:
echo "IRQBALANCE_BANNED_CPUS=1" >> /etc/sysconfig/irqbalance
systemctl restart irqbalance.service 
 .. messages start in /var/log/messages

Remove the line from the irqbalance config file, restart, and the message output stops. 

NOTE: It's important for us to ban the assignment of network device IRQs from CPU0, otherwise packet loss can occur every 10 minutes (the /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ipfrag_secret_interval) for high-speed data links.


Actual results:
.. as noted above

Expected results:
.. No message, and CPU0 should be excluded from the irqbalance algorithm.

Additional info:
The man page documents IRQBALANCE_BANNED_CPUS, but doesn't mention IRQ_AFFINITY_MASK.  On the other hand, the config file has some documentation on IRQ_AFFINITY_MASK but no longer mentions IRQBALANCE_BANNED_CPUS.  It looks like someone is in the middle of reworking irqbalance??

Comment 1 Anton Arapov 2012-02-16 07:43:08 UTC
Thanks for the report, we will take a look.

Comment 2 Petr Holasek 2012-02-20 16:55:17 UTC
FYI, issue fixed in upstream commit http://code.google.com/p/irqbalance/issues/detail?id=26

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2012-03-01 12:15:08 UTC
irqbalance-1.0.3-3.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/irqbalance-1.0.3-3.fc16

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2012-03-06 19:43:30 UTC
Package irqbalance-1.0.3-3.fc16:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 16 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing irqbalance-1.0.3-3.fc16'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-3118/irqbalance-1.0.3-3.fc16
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2012-03-17 23:55:24 UTC
irqbalance-1.0.3-3.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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