Re: [RFC PATCH] clocksource: increase watchdog retries

On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 02:38:29PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:

I had something like this pending, but people came up with other workloads
that resulted in repeated delays.  In those cases, it does not make sense
to ever mark the affected clocksource unstable.  This led me to the patch
shown below, which splats after about 100 consecutive long-delay retries,
but which avoids marking the clocksource unstable.  This is queued on -rcu.

Does this work for you?

commit 9ec2a03bbf4bee3d9fbc02a402dee36efafc5a2d
Author: Paul E. McKenney [off-list ref]
Date:   Thu May 27 11:03:28 2021 -0700

    clocksource: Forgive repeated long-latency watchdog clocksource reads

Yes, it does. I have done 100 reboots of the testing machine (running 5.15-rc5 with the above patch applied) and TSC was stable every time. I am going to start a longer test of 300 reboots for good measure and report back next week. J.