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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
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* Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 22:06, Lee Revell wrote:
> 
> > Same results here, the mlockall problem is not fixed by -O4:
> 
> Correction, those traces did not involve mlockall at all, but
> kmap_atomic and get_user_pages.
> 
> Here is another one I got starting jackd.  Never seen it before today.
> 
> (jackd/778): 14583us non-preemptible critical section violated 1100 us
> preempt threshold starting at schedule+0x55/0x5a0 and ending at
> schedule+0x2ed/0x5a0

can you trigger similar latencies via the attached mlock testcode?
(written by Florian. Run it as root.)

	Ingo

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// here is the code i used to test the mlockall caused xruns
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <sstream>
#include <unistd.h>

int main (int argc, char *argv[]) {
        if (argc < 2) {
                std::cout << "how many kbytes you want allocated and mlockall'ed?" << std::endl;
        }

        std::stringstream stream(argv[1]);
        int kbytes;
        stream >> kbytes;
        char *mem = new char[kbytes*1024];
        std::cout << "filling with 0's" << std::endl;
        for (int i = 0; i < kbytes*1024; ++i) {
                mem[i] = 0;
        }

        std::cout << "ok, you want " << kbytes << "kb of memory mlocked.  going for it.." << std::endl;
        int error = mlockall(MCL_CURRENT);
        if (error != 0) { std::cout << "mlock error" << std::endl; }
        else { std::cout << "mlock successfull" << std::endl;}
}


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