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From: Thomas Charbonnel <thomas@undata.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>,
	Daniel Schmitt <pnambic@unu.nu>, "K.R. Foley" <kr@cybsft.com>,
	Felipe Alfaro Solana <lkml@felipe-alfaro.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Mark_H_Johnson@raytheon.com
Subject: Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q5
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 21:23:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1093980227.8005.14.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040830180011.GA7419@elte.hu>

Ingo Molnar wrote :

(...)
> > and a weird one with do_timer (called from do_IRQ) taking more than 1ms
> > to complete :
> > http://www.undata.org/~thomas/do_irq.trace
> 
> hm, indeed this is a weird one. 1 msec is too close to the timer 
> frequency to be accidental. According to the trace:
> 
>  00010000 0.002ms (+0.000ms): timer_interrupt (generic_handle_IRQ_event)
>  00010001 0.002ms (+0.000ms): mark_offset_tsc (timer_interrupt)
>  00010001 1.028ms (+1.025ms): do_timer (timer_interrupt)
>  00010001 1.028ms (+0.000ms): update_process_times (do_timer)
> 
> the latency happened between the beginning of mark_offset_tsc() and the
> calling of do_timer() - i.e. the delay happened somewhere within
> mark_offset_tsc() itself. Is this an SMP system?
> 
> 	Ingo

It isn't an SMP system, but here are some other traces that can prove
useful :
preemption latency trace v1.0.2
-------------------------------
 latency: 567 us, entries: 35 (35)
    -----------------
    | task: swapper/0, uid:0 nice:0 policy:0 rt_prio:0
    -----------------
 => started at: do_IRQ+0x19/0x190
 => ended at:   do_IRQ+0x13d/0x190
=======>
00010000 0.000ms (+0.000ms): do_IRQ (common_interrupt)
00010000 0.000ms (+0.000ms): do_IRQ (default_idle)
00010001 0.000ms (+0.000ms): mask_and_ack_8259A (do_IRQ)
00010001 0.002ms (+0.002ms): generic_redirect_hardirq (do_IRQ)
00010000 0.002ms (+0.000ms): generic_handle_IRQ_event (do_IRQ)
00010000 0.002ms (+0.000ms): timer_interrupt (generic_handle_IRQ_event)
00010001 0.003ms (+0.000ms): mark_offset_tsc (timer_interrupt)
00010001 0.562ms (+0.559ms): do_timer (timer_interrupt)
00010001 0.562ms (+0.000ms): update_process_times (do_timer)
00010001 0.562ms (+0.000ms): update_one_process (update_process_times)
00010001 0.562ms (+0.000ms): run_local_timers (update_process_times)
00010001 0.562ms (+0.000ms): raise_softirq (update_process_times)
00010001 0.562ms (+0.000ms): scheduler_tick (update_process_times)
00010001 0.562ms (+0.000ms): sched_clock (scheduler_tick)
00010001 0.563ms (+0.000ms): update_wall_time (do_timer)
00010001 0.563ms (+0.000ms): update_wall_time_one_tick
(update_wall_time)
00010001 0.563ms (+0.000ms): profile_tick (timer_interrupt)
00010001 0.563ms (+0.000ms): profile_hook (profile_tick)
00010002 0.563ms (+0.000ms): notifier_call_chain (profile_hook)
00010001 0.564ms (+0.000ms): profile_hit (timer_interrupt)
00010001 0.564ms (+0.000ms): generic_note_interrupt (do_IRQ)
00010001 0.564ms (+0.000ms): end_8259A_irq (do_IRQ)
00010001 0.564ms (+0.000ms): enable_8259A_irq (do_IRQ)
00000001 0.565ms (+0.000ms): do_softirq (do_IRQ)
00000001 0.565ms (+0.000ms): __do_softirq (do_softirq)
00000001 0.565ms (+0.000ms): wake_up_process (do_softirq)
00000001 0.565ms (+0.000ms): try_to_wake_up (wake_up_process)
00000001 0.566ms (+0.000ms): task_rq_lock (try_to_wake_up)
00000002 0.566ms (+0.000ms): activate_task (try_to_wake_up)
00000002 0.566ms (+0.000ms): sched_clock (activate_task)
00000002 0.566ms (+0.000ms): recalc_task_prio (activate_task)
00000002 0.566ms (+0.000ms): effective_prio (recalc_task_prio)
00000002 0.567ms (+0.000ms): enqueue_task (activate_task)
00000001 0.567ms (+0.000ms): preempt_schedule (try_to_wake_up)
00000001 0.567ms (+0.000ms): sub_preempt_count (do_IRQ)

preemption latency trace v1.0.2
-------------------------------
 latency: 624 us, entries: 35 (35)
    -----------------
    | task: swapper/0, uid:0 nice:0 policy:0 rt_prio:0
    -----------------
 => started at: do_IRQ+0x19/0x190
 => ended at:   do_IRQ+0x13d/0x190
=======>
00010000 0.000ms (+0.000ms): do_IRQ (common_interrupt)
00010000 0.000ms (+0.000ms): do_IRQ (default_idle)
00010001 0.000ms (+0.000ms): mask_and_ack_8259A (do_IRQ)
00010001 0.613ms (+0.612ms): generic_redirect_hardirq (do_IRQ)
00010000 0.613ms (+0.000ms): generic_handle_IRQ_event (do_IRQ)
00010000 0.613ms (+0.000ms): timer_interrupt (generic_handle_IRQ_event)
00010001 0.613ms (+0.000ms): mark_offset_tsc (timer_interrupt)
00010001 0.619ms (+0.005ms): do_timer (timer_interrupt)
00010001 0.619ms (+0.000ms): update_process_times (do_timer)
00010001 0.619ms (+0.000ms): update_one_process (update_process_times)
00010001 0.619ms (+0.000ms): run_local_timers (update_process_times)
00010001 0.619ms (+0.000ms): raise_softirq (update_process_times)
00010001 0.619ms (+0.000ms): scheduler_tick (update_process_times)
00010001 0.619ms (+0.000ms): sched_clock (scheduler_tick)
00010001 0.620ms (+0.000ms): update_wall_time (do_timer)
00010001 0.620ms (+0.000ms): update_wall_time_one_tick
(update_wall_time)
00010001 0.620ms (+0.000ms): profile_tick (timer_interrupt)
00010001 0.620ms (+0.000ms): profile_hook (profile_tick)
00010002 0.620ms (+0.000ms): notifier_call_chain (profile_hook)
00010001 0.621ms (+0.000ms): profile_hit (timer_interrupt)
00010001 0.621ms (+0.000ms): generic_note_interrupt (do_IRQ)
00010001 0.621ms (+0.000ms): end_8259A_irq (do_IRQ)
00010001 0.621ms (+0.000ms): enable_8259A_irq (do_IRQ)
00000001 0.622ms (+0.000ms): do_softirq (do_IRQ)
00000001 0.622ms (+0.000ms): __do_softirq (do_softirq)
00000001 0.622ms (+0.000ms): wake_up_process (do_softirq)
00000001 0.622ms (+0.000ms): try_to_wake_up (wake_up_process)
00000001 0.623ms (+0.000ms): task_rq_lock (try_to_wake_up)
00000002 0.623ms (+0.000ms): activate_task (try_to_wake_up)
00000002 0.623ms (+0.000ms): sched_clock (activate_task)
00000002 0.623ms (+0.000ms): recalc_task_prio (activate_task)
00000002 0.623ms (+0.000ms): effective_prio (recalc_task_prio)
00000002 0.623ms (+0.000ms): enqueue_task (activate_task)
00000001 0.624ms (+0.000ms): preempt_schedule (try_to_wake_up)
00000001 0.624ms (+0.000ms): sub_preempt_count (do_IRQ)

As you can see ~1ms was probably an accident, and the latency does not
always come from do_timer. The constant is do_IRQ interrupting the idle
thread.

Thomas



  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-31 19:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 122+ 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
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 [this message]
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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-08-30 19:13 [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q5 Mark_H_Johnson
2004-08-30 19:21 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-31  8:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-02  6:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-30 22:04 Mark_H_Johnson
2004-08-31  6:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-01  7:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-31 12:46 Mark_H_Johnson
2004-08-31 15:17 Mark_H_Johnson
2004-08-31 17:20 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-31 18:09   ` Lee Revell
2004-08-31 18:53     ` Takashi Iwai
2004-08-31 18:56       ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-02 16:59         ` Jaroslav Kysela
2004-09-02 17:50           ` Lee Revell
2004-08-31 18:19   ` Takashi Iwai
2004-08-31 18:48     ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-31 19:02       ` Takashi Iwai
2004-08-31 18:50   ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-31 20:10 Mark_H_Johnson
2004-08-31 20:37 ` Ingo Molnar
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2004-08-31 23:06                     ` Andi Kleen
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2004-08-31 23:10                             ` Andi Kleen
2004-09-01  7:05                               ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-01 14:37 Mark_H_Johnson
2004-09-01 19:31 ` Takashi Iwai
2004-09-01 15:21 Mark_H_Johnson
2004-09-02 22:24 ` Ingo Molnar
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2004-09-01 17:09 ` Ingo Molnar

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