From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764049AbXGYNFs (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:05:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756706AbXGYNFl (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:05:41 -0400 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:43499 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755355AbXGYNFj (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:05:39 -0400 Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:05:36 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: John Sigler Cc: linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org, oprofile-list@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Pin-pointing the root of unusual application latencies Message-ID: <20070725130536.GA12334@elte.hu> References: <469600F7.3060603@free.fr> <20070723095357.GA886@elte.hu> <46A4B7C2.1070304@free.fr> <20070723160442.GA7995@elte.hu> <46A5B8E3.4060004@free.fr> <46A74A58.1070704@free.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46A74A58.1070704@free.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.0 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.0 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.0.3 -1.0 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * John Sigler wrote: > >With a pair of the following in the middle: > > > >softirq--4 0.... 670us : call_rcu (rt_run_flush) > >softirq--4 0D..1 670us : __rcu_advance_callbacks (call_rcu) > Any idea what went wrong in the above function trace? Why is the > kernel spinning in circles that way? does your test-app have higher priority than softirq--4 ? Ingo