From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267274AbUGNBAC (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jul 2004 21:00:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262065AbUGNBAC (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jul 2004 21:00:02 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:49303 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267274AbUGNA7s (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jul 2004 20:59:48 -0400 Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 17:58:33 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Lee Revell Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Ext3 vs. ReiserFS results (was Re: XRUN traces) Message-Id: <20040713175833.6ab037ef.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <1089763038.3392.8.camel@mindpipe> References: <1089758294.2747.4.camel@mindpipe> <20040713161004.37a4654e.akpm@osdl.org> <1089763038.3392.8.camel@mindpipe> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Lee Revell wrote: > > Jul 13 19:51:45 mindpipe kernel: ALSA /usr/src/alsa-cvs-1.0.5/alsa-driver/alsa-kernel/core/pcm_lib.c:169: XRUN: pcmC0D0p > Jul 13 19:51:45 mindpipe kernel: [dump_stack+23/32] dump_stack+0x17/0x20 > Jul 13 19:51:45 mindpipe kernel: [__crc_totalram_pages+562733/3558647] snd_pcm_period_elapsed+0x2c7/0x400 [snd_pcm] > Jul 13 19:51:45 mindpipe kernel: [__crc_totalram_pages+631725/3558647] snd_emu10k1_interrupt+0x377/0x400 [snd_emu10k1] > Jul 13 19:51:45 mindpipe kernel: [handle_IRQ_event+51/96] handle_IRQ_event+0x33/0x60 > Jul 13 19:51:45 mindpipe kernel: [do_IRQ+165/368] do_IRQ+0xa5/0x170 > Jul 13 19:51:45 mindpipe kernel: [common_interrupt+24/32] common_interrupt+0x18/0x20 > Jul 13 19:51:45 mindpipe kernel: [d_callback+29/64] d_callback+0x1d/0x40 > Jul 13 19:51:45 mindpipe kernel: [rcu_do_batch+62/80] rcu_do_batch+0x3e/0x50 > Jul 13 19:51:45 mindpipe kernel: [rcu_process_callbacks+150/256] rcu_process_callbacks+0x96/0x100 > Jul 13 19:51:45 mindpipe kernel: [tasklet_action+68/112] tasklet_action+0x44/0x70 > Jul 13 19:51:45 mindpipe kernel: [__do_softirq+131/144] __do_softirq+0x83/0x90 > Jul 13 19:51:45 mindpipe kernel: [do_softirq+53/64] do_softirq+0x35/0x40 > Jul 13 19:51:45 mindpipe kernel: [do_IRQ+277/368] do_IRQ+0x115/0x170 > Jul 13 19:51:45 mindpipe kernel: [common_interrupt+24/32] common_interrupt+0x18/0x20 > Jul 13 19:51:45 mindpipe kernel: [poll_freewait+46/80] poll_freewait+0x2e/0x50 > Jul 13 19:51:45 mindpipe kernel: [sys_poll+472/544] sys_poll+0x1d8/0x220 This one's going to be a problem. It's due to RCU freeing a large number of dentries in one hit.