Re: Interesting interaction between lguest and CFS

[Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>]

On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 09:08:06PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> 
> > Matt, could you send me your .config too? Maybe i can reproduce it 
> > with your config.
> 
> ok, got it (off-list) and you seem to have the default HZ=250. Could you 
> change it to HZ=1000 - does the delay get alot smaller?

Well I'm too busy/lazy to reboot at the moment, but I've reproduced
this behavior with the following:

watchdelta.py:
import time

last = time.time()
while 1:
    t = time.time()
    delta = t - last
    if delta > .5:
        print delta
    last = t

$ nice -n 20 python watchdelta.py 
0.696138858795
0.772134065628
0.852141141891
2.22020101547
0.600075960159
0.528147935867
0.556170940399
0.536160945892
0.572169065475
0.672204971313
0.576174974442
0.640056848526
0.548166036606
0.568286895752
0.544052124023
0.572114944458
0.534852027893
0.596146821976
0.552155971527
0.552098035812
0.564115047455
0.546761989594
0.63211107254
0.876178026199
0.584072828293
0.544088125229
0.760088920593
1.07612800598
0.552155017853
...

At load=1 (the first several lines), this prints out messages
sporadically. At higher loads, every iteration is a >.5s delay. So
it's probably not particular to lguest at all.

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