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@@ -70,6 +70,12 @@ o A periodic interrupt whose handler takes longer than the time
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considerably longer than normal, which can in turn result in
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RCU CPU stall warnings.
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+o Testing a workload on a fast system, tuning the stall-warning
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+ timeout down to just barely avoid RCU CPU stall warnings, and then
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+ running the same workload with the same stall-warning timeout on a
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+ slow system. Note that thermal throttling and on-demand governors
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+ can cause a single system to be sometimes fast and sometimes slow!
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o A hardware or software issue shuts off the scheduler-clock
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interrupt on a CPU that is not in dyntick-idle mode. This
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problem really has happened, and seems to be most likely to
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