From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Very slow disk speed after "IRQ: nobody cared"
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:51:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C18BABC.8090301@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100615092818.GF1635@myhost.felk.cvut.cz>
(cc'ing linux-ide)
On 06/15/2010 11:28 AM, Michal Svoboda wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> Sometimes I get a 'nobody cared' message such as this
>
> [ 202.078556] irq 16: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)
> [ 202.078561] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.33 #1
> [ 202.078563] Call Trace:
> [ 202.078565] <IRQ> [<ffffffff8106ef16>] __report_bad_irq+0x26/0xa0
> [ 202.078574] [<ffffffff8106f11a>] note_interrupt+0x18a/0x1d0
> [ 202.078578] [<ffffffff8106da0a>] ? handle_IRQ_event+0x4a/0xf0
> [ 202.078582] [<ffffffff8106fe3d>] handle_fasteoi_irq+0xcd/0x100
> [ 202.078587] [<ffffffff810055dd>] handle_irq+0x1d/0x30
> [ 202.078590] [<ffffffff81005257>] do_IRQ+0x67/0xf0
> [ 202.078595] [<ffffffff81414493>] ret_from_intr+0x0/0xa
> [ 202.078597] <EOI> [<ffffffff81211b48>] ? acpi_idle_enter_bm+0x224/0x24d
> [ 202.078606] [<ffffffff81211b3e>] ? acpi_idle_enter_bm+0x21a/0x24d
> [ 202.078611] [<ffffffff8131c72b>] cpuidle_idle_call+0x9b/0x100
> [ 202.078615] [<ffffffff8100099c>] cpu_idle+0x9c/0xf0
> [ 202.078618] [<ffffffff81003290>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x0/0x10
> [ 202.078624] [<ffffffff813fd9bf>] rest_init+0x8f/0xa0
> [ 202.078628] [<ffffffff815ceb31>] start_kernel+0x322/0x32d
> [ 202.078632] [<ffffffff815ce2e7>] x86_64_start_reservations+0xf7/0xfb
> [ 202.078636] [<ffffffff815ce3d3>] x86_64_start_kernel+0xe8/0xef
> [ 202.078638] handlers:
> [ 202.078639] [<ffffffff812af0e0>] (mpt_interrupt+0x0/0x990)
> [ 202.078645] [<ffffffff812d6ed0>] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x70)
> [ 202.078649] Disabling IRQ #16
>
> And then my disks go turtle speed:
> /dev/sda:
> Timing cached reads: 9180 MB in 2.00 seconds = 4591.89 MB/sec
> Timing buffered disk reads: 8 MB in 3.20 seconds = 2.50 MB/sec
>
> IRQ 16 seems to have something to do with disks:
> [ 19.703064] scsi6 : ioc0: LSISAS1068E B3, FwRev=00192f00h, Ports=1,
> MaxQ=266, IRQ=16
> CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3 CPU4 CPU5
> CPU6 CPU7
> 16: 200124 0 0 0 0 0
> 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi ioc0, uhci_hcd:usb3
>
> Is the performance drop caused by the 'disabling IRQ'? And why would
> the 'nobody cared' message be printed in the first place (it happens
> only sometimes)? And is there a way out of this (ie. enabling the IRQ)
> besides rebooting?
Can you please post full boot log? Also, can you give a shot at the
following git tree?
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc.git lost-spurious-irq
Thanks.
--
tejun
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