Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q5

Lee Revell
2004-08-31T21:04:47Z

On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 16:20, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> so ... could you try the patch below - does it work and how does the
> latency look like now? (ontop of an unmodified generic.c)
>

Now it looks like this:

preemption latency trace v1.0.2
-------------------------------
latency: 574 us, entries: 19 (19)
-----------------
| task: X/1391, uid:0 nice:0 policy:0 rt_prio:0
-----------------
=> started at: cond_resched+0xd/0x40
=> ended at: sys_ioctl+0xdf/0x290
=======>
00000001 0.000ms (+0.000ms): touch_preempt_timing (cond_resched)
00000001 0.000ms (+0.000ms): do_blank_screen (vt_ioctl)
00000001 0.000ms (+0.000ms): is_console_locked (do_blank_screen)
00000001 0.001ms (+0.000ms): hide_cursor (do_blank_screen)
00000001 0.002ms (+0.000ms): vgacon_cursor (hide_cursor)
00000001 0.004ms (+0.001ms): hide_softcursor (do_blank_screen)
00000001 0.004ms (+0.000ms): is_console_locked (do_blank_screen)
00000001 0.004ms (+0.000ms): vgacon_save_screen (do_blank_screen)
00000001 0.005ms (+0.000ms): _mmx_memcpy (vgacon_save_screen)
00000001 0.006ms (+0.000ms): kernel_fpu_begin (_mmx_memcpy)
00000001 0.481ms (+0.475ms): vgacon_blank (do_blank_screen)
00000001 0.481ms (+0.000ms): vgacon_set_origin (vgacon_blank)
00000001 0.573ms (+0.091ms): set_origin (vt_ioctl)
00000001 0.573ms (+0.000ms): is_console_locked (set_origin)
00000001 0.573ms (+0.000ms): vgacon_set_origin (set_origin)
00000001 0.574ms (+0.000ms): release_console_sem (vt_ioctl)
00000001 0.575ms (+0.000ms): sub_preempt_count (sys_ioctl)
00000001 0.575ms (+0.000ms): _mmx_memcpy (check_preempt_timing)
00000001 0.575ms (+0.000ms): kernel_fpu_begin (_mmx_memcpy)

Lee