Re: [Xen-devel] BUG: sched=credit2 crashes system when using cpupools

[Dario Faggioli <dfaggioli@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2018-08-30 at 18:49 +1000, Steven Haigh wrote:
> On 2018-08-30 18:33, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > > > > 
> > Anyway - as Jürgen says, something for the scheduler
> > maintainers to look into.
> 
Ok, I'm back.

> Yep - I just want to confirm that we tested this in BOTH NUMA 
> configurations - and credit2 crashed on both.
> 
> I switched back to sched=credit, and it seems to work as expected:
> # xl cpupool-list
> Name               CPUs   Sched     Active   Domain count
> Pool-node0          12    credit       y          3
> Pool-node1          12    credit       y          0
> 
Wait, in a previous message, you said: "A machine where we could get
this working every time shows". Doesn't that mean creating a separate
pool for node 1 works with both Credit and Credit2, if the node has
memory?

I mean, trying to clarifying, my understanding is that you have to
systems:

system A: node 1 has *no* memory
system B: both node 0 and node 1 have memory

Creating a Credit pool with pcpus from node 1 always work on both
systems.

OTOH, when you try to create a Credit2 pool with pcpus from node 1,
does it always crash on both systems, or does it work on system B and
crashes on system A ?

I do have a NUMA box with RAM in both nodes (so similar to system B).
Last time I checked, what you're trying to do worked there, pretty much
with any scheduler combination, but I'll recheck.

I don't have a box similar to system A. I'll try to remove some of the
RAM from that NUMA box, and check what happens.

Regards,
Dario
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