From: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <sven@thebigcorporation.com>
To: Austin Hendrix <ahendrix@willowgarage.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kfree causing high latency on 3.4.4-rt13
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2013 15:40:55 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1360021255.23825.0.camel@linux-mbp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOY97VZ-98xy-MaS5YuwUh9e00r8=eHQ1ZbG5yfp3xnHJjnSew@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 13:54 -0800, Austin Hendrix wrote:
> An example of what I'm seeing from latencytop is:
> [kfree] 7937.6 msec 6.4 %
you are overwhelming folks with data now... but just a few more
questions:
- e.g. what does the RT program you are running do?
- Code snippet that reproduces this issue?
- list of other processes on system.
- system specs; e.g. cpu speed, I am guessing around 8 - 12 Kilo Hz?
Thanks
Sven
>
> I poked around the kernel source a bit and was pretty stumped by this,
> so I'm glad it's not just me.
>
> Thanks,
> -Austin
>
> On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 3:49 AM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> > On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Austin Hendrix wrote:
> >> I'm running 3.4.4-rt13 on my systems, and while the realtime
> >> performance is great, I occasionally see non-realtime processes block
> >> for several seconds. Running latencytop, it looks like the kfree
> >> kernel process is the worst offender. Does anyone have advice on how I
> >
> > There is no kfree process. kfree() is a function to release memory
> > allocated by kmalloc.
> >
> > Can you provide the latencytop output please ?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > tglx
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-04 23:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-29 20:59 kfree causing high latency on 3.4.4-rt13 Austin Hendrix
2013-02-04 11:49 ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-02-04 21:54 ` Austin Hendrix
2013-02-04 23:40 ` Sven-Thorsten Dietrich [this message]
2013-02-05 1:42 ` Austin Hendrix
2013-02-05 10:12 ` Thomas Gleixner
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