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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Gabriel Devenyi <devenyga@mcmaster.ca>
Cc: ck@vds.kolivas.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ck] Re: Preempt Threshold Measurements
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 19:55:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040713025502.GR21066@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200407122248.50377.devenyga@mcmaster.ca>

On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 10:48:50PM -0400, Gabriel Devenyi wrote:
> Well I'm not particularly educated in kernel internals yet, here's some 
> reports from the system when its running.
> 6ms non-preemptible critical section violated 4 ms preempt threshold starting 
> at do_munmap+0xd2/0x140 and ending at do_munmap+0xeb/0x140
>  [<c014007b>] do_munmap+0xeb/0x140
>  [<c01163b0>] dec_preempt_count+0x110/0x120
>  [<c014007b>] do_munmap+0xeb/0x140
>  [<c014010f>] sys_munmap+0x3f/0x60
>  [<c0103ee1>] sysenter_past_esp+0x52/0x71

Looks like ZAP_BLOCK_SIZE may be too large for you. Lowering that some
may "help" this. It's probably harmless, but try lowering that to half
of whatever it is now, or maybe 64*PAGE_SIZE. It may be worthwhile
to restructure how the preemption points are done in unmap_vmas() so
we don't end up in some kind of tuning nightmare.


-- wli

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-07-13  2:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-12 23:43 Preempt Threshold Measurements Gabriel Devenyi
2004-07-12 23:59 ` Con Kolivas
2004-07-13  0:15   ` Gabriel Devenyi
2004-07-13  2:40 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-13  2:48   ` [ck] " Gabriel Devenyi
2004-07-13  2:54     ` Con Kolivas
2004-07-13  4:01       ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-13  5:51         ` Con Kolivas
2004-07-13  6:14           ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-13  8:03             ` Lee Revell
2004-07-13 10:26             ` Con Kolivas
2004-07-13 21:52             ` Con Kolivas
2004-07-13 10:08         ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-13 10:40           ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-13 11:07             ` Lenar Lõhmus
2004-07-13 11:13               ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-13  2:55     ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2004-07-13  3:09       ` [ck] " Gabriel Devenyi
2004-07-13  4:07       ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-13  5:34         ` Con Kolivas
2004-07-13  5:48           ` Nick Piggin
2004-07-13 10:14             ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-14 10:15 ` [ck] " Jens Bergmann

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