Re: [PATCH] Preemption Latency Measurement Tool

[Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>]

On Thu, 2001-09-20 at 18:51, Dieter Nützel wrote:
> > Does your audio source depend on any files (eg mp3s) and if so, could they
> > be moved to a ramfs? Do the skips go away then?
> 
> Good point.
> 
> I've copied one video (MP2) and one Ogg-Vorbis file into /dev/shm.
> Little bit better but hiccup still there :-(

As I've been saying, the problem really shouldn't be disk I/O.  I would
think (and really hope) the readahead code can fit a little mp3 in
memory.  Even if not, its a quick read to load it.  The continued blips
you see are caused by something, well, continual :)

> dbench 16
> Throughput 25.7613 MB/sec (NB=32.2016 MB/sec  257.613 MBit/sec)
> 7.500u 29.870s 1:22.99 45.0%    0+0k 0+0io 511pf+0w
> 
> Worst 20 latency times of 3298 measured in this period.
>   usec      cause     mask   start line/file      address   end line/file
>  11549  spin_lock        1   678/inode.c         c01566d7   704/inode.c

A single 11ms latency is not bad.  Again, this looks OK.

> *******************************************************
> 
> dbench 16 + renice artsd -20 works
> GREAT!
> 
> *******************************************************

Great :)

> dbench 32 and above + renice artsd -20 fail
> 
> Writing this during dbench 32 ...:-)))
> 
> dbench 32 + renice artsd -20
> Throughput 18.5102 MB/sec (NB=23.1378 MB/sec  185.102 MBit/sec)
> 15.240u 63.070s 3:49.21 34.1%   0+0k 0+0io 911pf+0w
> 
> Worst 20 latency times of 3679 measured in this period.
>   usec      cause     mask   start line/file      address   end line/file
>  17625  spin_lock        1   678/inode.c         c01566d7   704/inode.c

What do you mean failed?

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Robert M. Love
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