Re: bad networking related lag in v2.6.22-rc2

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Anant Nitya <kernel@prachanda.info> wrote:

> I am posting links to the information you asked for. One more thing, 
> after digging a bit more I found its QoS shaping that is making the 
> box crawl. Once I disabled the traffic shaping everything comes back 
> to smooth and normal. Shaping being done on very low speed residential 
> ADSL 256/64 Kbps connection. If you want me to post shaping rules, 
> please free to ask. BTW its a simple HTB/SFQ rules.
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> http://cybertek.info/taitai/trace-to-ingo.txt.bz2

thanks! This trace indeed includes the smoking gun, htb_dequeue() and 
__qdisc_run():

   privoxy-12926 1.Ns1 1597us : rb_first (htb_dequeue)

this goes on, non-preemptible, for 160 milliseconds (!):

 privoxy-12926 1.Ns1 161568us : rb_first (htb_dequeue)
 privoxy-12926 1.Ns1 161568us : qdisc_watchdog_schedule (htb_dequeue)

and finally manages to escape the loop:

 privoxy-12926 1.Ns1 161597us : rb_first (htb_dequeue)
 privoxy-12926 1.Ns1 161597us : rb_first (htb_dequeue)
 privoxy-12926 1.Ns1 161599us : htb_safe_rb_erase (htb_dequeue)
 privoxy-12926 1.Ns1 161599us : rb_erase (htb_safe_rb_erase)
 privoxy-12926 1.Ns1 161600us : htb_change_class_mode (htb_dequeue)
 privoxy-12926 1.Ns1 161601us : htb_activate_prios (htb_change_class_mode)

and the system recovers.

David, any ideas about what's wrong with htb_dequeue(), based on this 
trace?

	Ingo