Re: nohz and strange sleep latencies

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> On unloaded x60 system, 2.6.24-rc3 (tainted-pavel-so if someone can
> reproduce it, it would be helpful):
> 
> pavel@amd:~$ while true; do time sleep 0.01; done
> 0.00user 0.00system 0.01 (0m0.013s) elapsed 30.71%CPU
> 0.00user 0.00system 0.02 (0m0.024s) elapsed 8.36%CPU
> 0.00user 0.00system 0.01 (0m0.013s) elapsed 15.53%CPU
> 0.00user 0.00system 0.02 (0m0.026s) elapsed 7.75%CPU
> 0.00user 0.00system 0.01 (0m0.013s) elapsed 23.34%CPU
> 0.00user 0.00system 0.20 (0m0.207s) elapsed 1.45%CPU
> 0.00user 0.00system 0.01 (0m0.013s) elapsed 15.59%CPU
> 0.00user 0.00system 0.23 (0m0.230s) elapsed 1.30%CPU
> 0.00user 0.00system 0.01 (0m0.013s) elapsed 15.61%CPU
> 0.00user 0.00system 0.20 (0m0.201s) elapsed 1.48%CPU
> 0.00user 0.00system 0.01 (0m0.013s) elapsed 15.50%CPU
> 0.00user 0.00system 0.19 (0m0.190s) elapsed 1.05%CPU
> 0.00user 0.00system 0.01 (0m0.013s) elapsed 23.37%CPU
> 0.00user 0.00system 0.04 (0m0.049s) elapsed 4.09%CPU
> 0.00user 0.00system 0.01 (0m0.013s) elapsed 23.35%CPU
> 0.00user 0.00system 0.01 (0m0.017s) elapsed 11.89%CPU
> 0.00user 0.00system 0.01 (0m0.013s) elapsed 23.38%CPU
> 0.00user 0.00system 0.08 (0m0.081s) elapsed 3.71%CPU
> 0.00user 0.00system 0.01 (0m0.013s) elapsed 23.33%CPU
> 0.00user 0.00system 0.01 (0m0.019s) elapsed 15.92%CPU
> 
> nohz=off helps a lot. while true; do time sleep 0.0; done does not 
> have unexpected latencies.

does hpet=disable on the boot line also help? (without nohz=off)

	Ingo