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From: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Migration of Standard Timers
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 11:41:59 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060919164159.GC26863@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1158683617.11682.14.camel@mindpipe>

On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 12:33:37PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> Which driver or subsystem is doing 100s of usecs of work in a timer?

The longest one I've captured so far results from:

rsp                rip                Function (args)
 ======================= <nmi>
0xffff810257822fd8 0xffffffff803a0e94 rt_check_expire+0x8c
 ======================= <interrupt>  
0xffff81025781fee8 0xffffffff803a0e08 rt_check_expire
0xffff81025781ff08 0xffffffff802386b3 run_timer_softirq+0x133
0xffff81025781ff38 0xffffffff80235262 __do_softirq+0x5e
0xffff81025781ff68 0xffffffff8020a958 call_softirq+0x1c
0xffff81025781ff80 0xffffffff8020bea7 do_softirq+0x2c
0xffff81025781ff90 0xffffffff80235142 irq_exit+0x48

> Shouldn't another mechanism like a workqueue be used instead?

Not quite sure what you're asking here.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-19 16:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-19 15:29 [PATCH] Migration of Standard Timers Dimitri Sivanich
2006-09-19 16:33 ` Lee Revell
2006-09-19 16:41   ` Dimitri Sivanich [this message]
2006-09-19 16:57     ` Lee Revell
2006-09-22 19:16 ` Andrew Morton
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-09-14 13:29 [PATCH] Migration of standard timers Dimitri Sivanich
2006-09-14 14:11 ` Jes Sorensen
2006-09-14 14:30   ` Dimitri Sivanich
2006-09-15  6:06 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-15 16:39 ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-09-15 16:58   ` Dimitri Sivanich

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