From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: bdupree@techfinesse.com
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Dynticks Causing High Context Switch Rate in ksoftirqd
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:18:58 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <474CB3F2.9020901@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1887.192.128.167.68.1196188273.squirrel@www.techfinesse.net>
bdupree@techfinesse.com wrote:
> Hello Robert,
>
> I've attached additional detail on the config of the misbehaving system
> including output from oprofile and PowerTop. PowerTop output leads me to
> believe that maybe this is an interaction between my bridged ethernet
> setup and dynticks? Hmmm...
Don't know about that, your top wakeups are from br_stp_enable_bridge,
but that is only 26 a second - that doesn't explain a context switch
rate of 150,000 a second..
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-28 0:19 UTC|newest]
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2007-11-27 4:36 ` Dynticks Causing High Context Switch Rate in ksoftirqd Robert Hancock
2007-11-27 5:38 ` Arjan van de Ven
[not found] ` <1887.192.128.167.68.1196188273.squirrel@www.techfinesse.net>
2007-11-28 0:18 ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2007-11-28 5:28 ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-29 2:44 bdupree
2007-11-29 15:40 ` Ray Lee
[not found] ` <17931.144.160.98.31.1196356276.squirrel@www.techfinesse.net>
2007-11-29 17:38 ` Ray Lee
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2007-11-27 2:36 bdupree
2007-11-28 5:22 ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-28 11:20 ` Ingo Molnar
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