From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751337AbWJEIbp (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 04:31:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751335AbWJEIbo (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 04:31:44 -0400 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:6073 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751336AbWJEIbn (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 04:31:43 -0400 Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 10:23:48 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Andrew Morton Cc: Thomas Gleixner , LKML , John Stultz , Valdis Kletnieks , Arjan van de Ven , Dave Jones , David Woodhouse , Jim Gettys , Roman Zippel Subject: Re: [patch 00/22] high resolution timers / dynamic ticks - V3 Message-ID: <20061005082348.GA30940@elte.hu> References: <20061004172217.092570000@cruncher.tec.linutronix.de> <20061005011608.b69e3461.akpm@osdl.org> <20061005011909.3e1a9fec.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061005011909.3e1a9fec.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-ELTE-SpamScore: -2.8 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-2.8 required=5.9 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_50 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.0.3 -3.3 ALL_TRUSTED Did not pass through any untrusted hosts 0.5 BAYES_50 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 40 to 60% [score: 0.5000] -0.0 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Andrew Morton wrote: > It just did something: > > [ 12.112000] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds > [ 12.160000] EXT3-fs: recovery complete. > [ 12.164000] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. > [ 12.980000] audit(1160010604.980:2): enforcing=1 old_enforcing=0 auid=4294967295 > [ 18.808000] security: 3 users, 6 roles, 1417 types, 151 bools, 1 sens, 256 cats > [ 18.812000] security: 57 classes, 41080 rules > [ 18.816000] SELinux: Completing initialization. > [ 18.816000] SELinux: Setting up existing superblocks. > [ 18.824000] SELinux: initialized (dev sda6, type ext3), uses xattr > [ 18.860000] SELinux: initialized (dev tmpfs, type tmpfs), uses transition SIDs > > > Those "six seconds" took at least three minutes. With luck I'll have > a login prompt tomorrow morning. as per your previous stats, the ratio between expected and real local APIC timer IRQs is 3:250. So if your normal bootup takes 1 minute, you should be up and running in an hour or so :-/ you should be seeing similar symptoms when booting the x86 SMP kernel on that box. Or is the anomalously slow LOC count only an artifact of the hres tree? Ingo