From: "P.O. Gaillard" <pierre-olivier.gaillard@fr.thalesgroup.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: voluntary-preempt-2.6.8.1-P9 : big latency when logging on console
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 14:25:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41331CC6.6090206@fr.thalesgroup.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20040830094124.GA26445@elte.hu
Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * P.O. Gaillard <pierre-olivier.gaillard@fr.thalesgroup.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I have a 1.6ms latency every time I log in with P9.
>
>
> could you try the patch below, ontop of P9? (or ontop of the latest, -Q5
> patch)
>
> The problem with font loading is that vt_ioctl runs with the BKL held
> (as all ioctls) which disables preemption, but in this case it seems
> pretty safe to drop the lock - the vga console has its own spinlock.
>
Thank you very much. I had to add a "#include <linux/smp_lock.h>" at the start
of vga_con.c to get it to compile and then :
1) I can login on the console without getting any latency above 100 microseconds.
2) Nothing seems to be broken by your change.
Note: I tested on 2.6.8.1 + P9.
thanks !
Pierre-Olivier
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-30 12:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 93+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-23 22:18 [patch] PPC/PPC64 port of voluntary preempt patch Scott Wood
2004-08-24 6:14 ` [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.8.1-P9 Ingo Molnar
2004-08-24 17:43 ` K.R. Foley
2004-08-24 20:32 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-24 20:53 ` Scott Wood
2004-08-24 19:20 ` K.R. Foley
2004-08-24 22:47 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-25 2:00 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-25 3:17 ` K.R. Foley
2004-08-25 3:22 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-25 14:34 ` K.R. Foley
2004-08-25 16:00 ` K.R. Foley
2004-08-25 3:26 ` K.R. Foley
2004-08-25 9:58 ` [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.8.1-P9 : oprofile latency at 3.3ms P.O. Gaillard
2004-08-26 21:39 ` [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.8.1-P9 Lee Revell
2004-08-27 16:54 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-28 7:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-28 15:10 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-28 12:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-30 9:27 ` voluntary-preempt-2.6.8.1-P9 : big latency when logging on console P.O. Gaillard
2004-08-30 9:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-30 12:25 ` P.O. Gaillard [this message]
2004-08-30 9:48 ` [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.8.1-P9 : a few submillisecond latencies P.O. Gaillard
2004-08-28 12:03 ` [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q0 Ingo Molnar
2004-08-28 16:18 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2004-08-28 16:50 ` K.R. Foley
2004-08-28 17:52 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-28 19:44 ` [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q2 Ingo Molnar
2004-08-28 20:01 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-28 20:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-28 20:08 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-28 20:10 ` Daniel Schmitt
2004-08-28 20:31 ` [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q3 Ingo Molnar
2004-08-28 21:10 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-28 21:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-28 21:16 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-28 23:51 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-29 2:35 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-29 5:43 ` [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q4 Ingo Molnar
2004-08-29 6:57 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-29 18:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-29 19:06 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-30 0:47 ` K.R. Foley
2004-08-30 3:42 ` K.R. Foley
2004-08-30 13:06 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-30 17:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-31 16:39 ` K.R. Foley
2004-08-30 9:06 ` [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q5 Ingo Molnar
2004-08-30 14:25 ` Thomas Charbonnel
2004-08-30 18:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-31 19:23 ` Thomas Charbonnel
2004-08-31 19:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-31 19:45 ` Thomas Charbonnel
2004-08-31 6:40 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-31 6:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-31 23:03 ` Lee Revell
2004-09-01 15:52 ` Martin Josefsson
2004-09-01 21:15 ` Lee Revell
2004-09-01 21:30 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-31 7:06 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-31 19:21 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-31 19:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-31 19:47 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-31 19:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-31 20:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-31 20:10 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-31 20:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-31 20:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-31 20:34 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-31 20:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-31 20:41 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-31 17:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2004-09-01 1:43 ` Lee Revell
2004-09-01 2:30 ` Lee Revell
2004-09-01 7:27 ` Lee Revell
2004-09-01 8:29 ` [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q6 Ingo Molnar
2004-09-01 13:51 ` [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q7 Ingo Molnar
2004-09-01 17:09 ` Thomas Charbonnel
2004-09-01 19:03 ` K.R. Foley
2004-09-01 20:11 ` Peter Zijlstra
2004-09-01 20:16 ` Lee Revell
2004-09-01 20:53 ` K.R. Foley
[not found] ` <41367E5D.3040605@cybsft.com>
2004-09-02 5:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-02 5:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-30 12:52 ` [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q3 Ingo Molnar
2004-08-29 7:40 ` Matt Heler
2004-08-24 19:51 ` [patch] PPC/PPC64 port of voluntary preempt patch Scott Wood
2004-08-26 3:17 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-26 16:38 ` Scott Wood
2004-08-27 1:18 ` Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano
2004-08-28 12:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-28 13:01 ` [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q1 Ingo Molnar
2004-08-30 1:06 ` Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano
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