Re: [PATCH] Dynamic tick for x86 version 050602-1

[Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>]

* Pallipadi, Venkatesh <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> [050608 15:14]:
> 
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org 
> >[mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of 
> >Jonathan Corbet
> >Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 1:36 PM
> >To: Tony Lindgren
> >Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> >Subject: Re: [PATCH] Dynamic tick for x86 version 050602-1 
> >
> >Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> wrote:
> >
> >> --- linux-dev.orig/arch/i386/kernel/irq.c	2005-06-01 
> >17:51:36.000000000 -0700
> >> +++ linux-dev/arch/i386/kernel/irq.c	2005-06-01 
> >17:54:32.000000000 -0700
> >> [...]
> >> @@ -102,6 +103,12 @@ fastcall unsigned int do_IRQ(struct pt_r
> >>  		);
> >>  	} else
> >>  #endif
> >> +
> >> +#ifdef CONFIG_NO_IDLE_HZ
> >> +	if (dyn_tick->state & (DYN_TICK_ENABLED | 
> >DYN_TICK_SKIPPING) && irq != 0)
> >> +		dyn_tick->interrupt(irq, NULL, regs);
> >> +#endif
> >> +
> >>  		__do_IRQ(irq, regs);
> >
> >Forgive me if I'm being obtuse (again...), but this hunk doesn't look
> >like it would work well in the 4K stacks case.  When 4K stacks 
> >are being
> >used, dyn_tick->interrupt() will only get called in the nested 
> >interrupt
> >case, when the interrupt stack is already in use.  This change also
> >pushes the non-assembly __do_IRQ() call out of the else branch, meaning
> >that, when the switch is made to the interrupt stack (most of 
> >the time),
> >__do_IRQ() will be called twice for the same interrupt.
> >
> >It looks to me like you want to put your #ifdef chunk *after* the call
> >to __do_IRQ(), unless you have some reason for needing it to happen
> >before the regular interrupt handler is invoked.
> >
> 
> Good catch. This indeed looks like a bug. 
> With 050602-1 version I am seeing double the number of calls to 
> timer_interrupt routine than expected. Say, when all CPUs are fully
> busy, 
> I see 2*HZ timer interrupt count in /proc/interrupts
> 
> And things look normal once I change this hunk as below
> 
> >>  	} else
> >>  #endif
> >> +
>    + {
> >> +#ifdef CONFIG_NO_IDLE_HZ
> >> +	if (dyn_tick->state & (DYN_TICK_ENABLED | 
> >DYN_TICK_SKIPPING) && irq != 0)
> >> +		dyn_tick->interrupt(irq, NULL, regs);
> >> +#endif
> >> +
> >>  		__do_IRQ(irq, regs);
>    + }

Cool. Sorry for not responding earlier, my hard drive crashed yesterday
morning... I also managed to fry my spare computer's motherboard
while trying to recover some data from the broken disk :)

I'll try to post an updated patch tomorrow.

Tony