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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.14-rt22 (and mainline) excessive latency
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 05:24:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051220042442.GA32039@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1135039244.28649.41.camel@mindpipe>


* Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote:

> I captured this 3+ ms latency trace when killing a process with a few 
> thousand threads.  Can a cond_resched be added to this code path?

>     bash-17992 0.n.1   29us : eligible_child (do_wait)
> 
>     [ 3000+ of these deleted ]
> 
>     bash-17992 0.n.1 3296us : eligible_child (do_wait)

Atomicity of signal delivery is pretty much a must, so i'm not sure this 
particular latency can be fixed, short of running PREEMPT_RT. Paul E.  
McKenney is doing some excellent stuff by RCU-ifying the task lookup and 
signal code, but i'm not sure whether it could cover do_wait().

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-20  4:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-20  0:40 2.6.14-rt22 (and mainline) excessive latency Lee Revell
2005-12-20  4:24 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2005-12-21  1:47   ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-12-21  3:32     ` Lee Revell
2005-12-21 13:36       ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-12-21 19:54         ` Lee Revell
2005-12-23  4:07           ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-12-23  4:22             ` Lee Revell

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