Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.41-00

[Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>]

On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 20:16 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> i have released the -V0.7.41-00 Real-Time Preemption patch (merged to
> 2.6.12-rc1), which can be downloaded from the usual place:
> 
>   http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/
> 

3ms latency in the NFS client code.  Workload was a kernel compile over
NFS.

preemption latency trace v1.1.4 on 2.6.12-rc1-RT-V0.7.41-00
--------------------------------------------------------------------
 latency: 3178 �s, #4095/14224, CPU#0 | (M:preempt VP:0, KP:1, SP:1 HP:1 #P:1)
    -----------------
    | task: ksoftirqd/0-2 (uid:0 nice:-10 policy:0 rt_prio:0)
    -----------------

                 _------=> CPU#            
                / _-----=> irqs-off        
               | / _----=> need-resched    
               || / _---=> hardirq/softirq 
               ||| / _--=> preempt-depth   
               |||| /                      
               |||||     delay             
   cmd     pid ||||| time  |   caller      
      \   /    |||||   \   |   /           
(T1/#0)            <...> 32105 0 3 00000004 00000000 [0011939614227867] 0.000ms (+4137027.445ms): <6500646c> (<61000000>)
(T1/#2)            <...> 32105 0 3 00000004 00000002 [0011939614228097] 0.000ms (+0.000ms): __trace_start_sched_wakeup+0x9a/0xd0 <c013150a> (try_to_wake_up+0x94/0x140 <c0110474>)
(T1/#3)            <...> 32105 0 3 00000003 00000003 [0011939614228436] 0.000ms (+0.000ms): preempt_schedule+0x11/0x80 <c02b57c1> (try_to_wake_up+0x94/0x140 <c0110474>)
(T3/#4)    <...>-32105 0dn.3    0�s : try_to_wake_up+0x11e/0x140 <c01104fe> <<...>-2> (69 76): 
(T1/#5)            <...> 32105 0 3 00000002 00000005 [0011939614228942] 0.000ms (+0.000ms): preempt_schedule+0x11/0x80 <c02b57c1> (try_to_wake_up+0xf8/0x140 <c01104d8>)
(T1/#6)            <...> 32105 0 3 00000002 00000006 [0011939614229130] 0.000ms (+0.000ms): wake_up_process+0x35/0x40 <c0110555> (do_softirq+0x3f/0x50 <c011b05f>)
(T6/#7)    <...>-32105 0dn.1    1�s < (1)
(T1/#8)            <...> 32105 0 2 00000001 00000008 [0011939614229782] 0.001ms (+0.000ms): radix_tree_gang_lookup+0xe/0x70 <c01e05ee> (nfs_wait_on_requests+0x6d/0x110 <c01c744d>)
(T1/#9)            <...> 32105 0 2 00000001 00000009 [0011939614229985] 0.001ms (+0.000ms): __lookup+0xe/0xd0 <c01e051e> (radix_tree_gang_lookup+0x52/0x70 <c01e0632>)
(T1/#10)            <...> 32105 0 2 00000001 0000000a [0011939614230480] 0.001ms (+0.000ms): radix_tree_gang_lookup+0xe/0x70 <c01e05ee> (nfs_wait_on_requests+0x6d/0x110 <c01c744d>)
(T1/#11)            <...> 32105 0 2 00000001 0000000b [0011939614230634] 0.002ms (+0.000ms): __lookup+0xe/0xd0 <c01e051e> (radix_tree_gang_lookup+0x52/0x70 <c01e0632>)
(T1/#12)            <...> 32105 0 2 00000001 0000000c [0011939614230889] 0.002ms (+0.000ms): radix_tree_gang_lookup+0xe/0x70 <c01e05ee> (nfs_wait_on_requests+0x6d/0x110 <c01c744d>)
(T1/#13)            <...> 32105 0 2 00000001 0000000d [0011939614231034] 0.002ms (+0.000ms): __lookup+0xe/0xd0 <c01e051e> (radix_tree_gang_lookup+0x52/0x70 <c01e0632>)
(T1/#14)            <...> 32105 0 2 00000001 0000000e [0011939614231302] 0.002ms (+0.000ms): radix_tree_gang_lookup+0xe/0x70 <c01e05ee> (nfs_wait_on_requests+0x6d/0x110 <c01c744d>)
(T1/#15)            <...> 32105 0 2 00000001 0000000f [0011939614231419] 0.002ms (+0.000ms): __lookup+0xe/0xd0 <c01e051e> (radix_tree_gang_lookup+0x52/0x70 <c01e0632>)

(last two lines just repeat)

This is probably not be a regression; I had never tested this with NFS
before.

Lee